Is Gangplank getting some form of compensation for IE nerf anytime soon?

Darth Valer··2 votes·659 views

The ubercritpoke build for Gangplank right now requires item 3078item 3087item 3031 and, imho, item 3035 (since without some form of armor penetration you lose most of your damage and you want to burst as much as possible with your Q). The problem is you get 50 % crit.chance out of you 3 core items and, if you crit, you do your job, which is quite meager, if you don't, you're extremely vulnerable for the next 4-5 seconds (according to how much CDR you have) and you become a negligible threat for that time.

Considering he relies primarily on this kind of poke role, is it expectable that he gets some more consistency for it too? Yasuo has doubled crit. chance, Shaco has 100 % crit. chance on his Q, Tryndamere has 35 % innate crit. chance. I've tried building Phantom Dancer instead of Statikk Shivv, but, althuough you crit quite more frequently, you lose most of your poke power. The IE nerfs indirectly hit him and I think this is a good reason to take a look at GP again and decide what to do with him.

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BakedLotion2 votes

more IE's :D

BluePolarizer1 votes

the obvious solution is to get a 2x IE build.

Darth Valer1 votes

Lawl. Unfortunately, you can't build five offensive items on an immobile melee champ. In particular, you can't build five offensive items and no lifesteal :S The fun about GP is that you can skip boots in your inventory since you naturally reach 420 MS with E, Trinity and Statikk, but you still find six item slot to be insufficient for your needs :|

The Bearded Bard1 votes

Please do not put Shaco in the same League as Yasuo. Shaco gets one free crit, and it doesn't even do regular crit damage until the ability is level 4. I don't even put more than one point in Q until I have to.

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