Can we have a thread to talk about GP

Hey boards just wanted to ask everyone if they have similar thoughts on the current condition of the salt water scourge. More specifically does he posses the strength as a pick that he used to or is he just a suboptimal one at the moment. The reason I ask is due to shift in how I noticed he is being played, instead of being the bursty bruiser who takes pop shots at barrels to chunk the unwary I've noticed people who bring him top against me are nothing more than a pirate version of .

All he'll do is sit under tower and farm and farm and farm until he sees the inevitable 4 man bot that he can ult for assist gold than it's back to farming. And while I understand and can appreciate more passive champions when they scale heavily into late game that is where the problem lies, he dosent seem to ever pop off like he used to and while I am not saying I want him to be nuking my team from down the lane I do feel like he should be rewarded for playing well. This bothered me a lot during one of my ranked games where I went and amazingly the enemy never died in lane to me.

I was impressed he even managed to scrounge some assists out of bot from luting, I was legitimately worried about how I was going to deal with him late game but when it rolled around nothing. Tri-force, last wisp, and some other item I can't remember barely left a dent in our support and mid when he landed a perfect chain, and since I was late game poppy it goes without saying that the attack was just brushed off.

I don't know he feels unrewarding at the moment to me at least, his laning phase is ass and the late game doesn't seem to make up for it unless he just gets leagues ahead, which can be said of any champion so I fail to see why or when he'd be useful.