After some experience with gangplank I am safe to say he is to weak at what he does

Hello guys the new pirate is definetly more fun to play but sadly he is to weak atm. So I ll talk about his issues and then I ll give some suggestions so bare with me

**gangplank is supposed to be a champion which is good at splitpushing (shocker I know) but sadly he isnt **

Splitpushing issues:

-Gangplank Is historicly weak duelist (Except in those level 1-2 duels) and after the rework he is still bad duelist even at lvl 1-2 -Gangplank is easy to gank even with those barrels who are supposed to act like a ward sadly they dont since they die in 1 hit / have low vision radius like 200-300 aoe. (Riot though they ll be helpfull against ganks.. they arent really enemy can just go around the vision or rightclick the barell) -Gangplank doesnt have much steroids to push a tower compared to other melee ad champs -**Gangplank **waveclear is nothing special unless you are maxing barrels in which case you are crazy XD -Enemy junglers arent afraid of ganking you compared to ap teemo or some crazy ap shaco even. since those pre set barels arent that dangerous and you do have to proc them (I think riot wanted them to be a little bit afraid)

Gangplank ulti is amazing for splitpushing but it doesnt make him a good splitpusher since he is bad/mediocore at what I said above

Teamfight issues

-** Its** hard to proc a barell to do some aoe damage in high elo .. Like insanely hard.

• If you are AD critplank then you just Q every 6 seconds and after you are afraid to get any closer because you are squishy. Only time you get to AA is when enemy is attacking your ally so you can cover him or if enemy is focusing you . In which case you arent the best duelist and people dont normaly focus toplaner -** If** you are tank then there are way tankier tanks who offer more cc. Besides everyone will ignore you if you dont do any dmg so you cant even go full tank
• Gangplank doesnt scale that well even if you get 1600 extra gold from passive and upograde your ulti 3 times. He is still medium at scalling So you arent that useful in teamfights later in the game (Infact older gp had higher scalling because you didnt need boots - bonus old e movement)

Passive and barrel issues

• Old passive was just better. It helped Gangplank to get actually closer in teamfights since you could slow enemies with q. Curently it feels like that passive doesnt have enough synergy with his kit (LL suggest something later about this)
• The fact that you can proc passive on minions does more harm then help it ruins your pocket money because they just die so you cant aoe them with barrel
• Barrel seems to be bugged with iceborn. I believe iceborn slow field is a bit bigger if you proc it on barell
• Whole point of Barrel is getting ahead in gold and stacking for silver serpents however. Gangplank could already get extra gold by killing multiple minions with parley and iceborn/tiamat/stattick shiv . So you just start getting tons of god earlier. However lets not forget barrels grant 10 gold if enemy kills it ..they can abuse that -Whole barrel chaining is a little bit awkward. Its just not useful/special enough and it is supposed to be his new cool mechanic. I mean you can poke with barrels but then again you can just q an enemy for pretty much the same effect and not risk pushing a wave/ruining your own farm/enemy getting 10 gold
• Barrels die to easy.. honestly gangplank ll never see play in high elo if enemy can just rightclick them. Since you ll to rarely deal dmg with them

**other issues ** Some players find it hard to navigate where are the Gangplank ulti upogrades in shop planting barrels stops aa animation to easy or something Barrels miss RUM

**How to buff gangplank? ** I would do this: Mainly buffs to splitpushing Gangplank style

**Gangplank q - new passive **

Gangplank can parrley his own minion if minions is at 30%50%70%90%100% Hitpoints (Depending on gangplank q level) or less to kill him and as such deny gold and some experience(30% all levels) to an enemy . If he kills it he regains 25 mana (Same as when you kill an enemy minion with parrrrrley)

If Gangplank parrrley an allied minion while his passive is ready it procs it and grants Gangplank silver serpents and extra gold for his own minion on top of denying gold and % exp to an enemy

What would this change do for Gangplank? -he would get 1 more unique mechanic/strenght for splitpushing which is killing his own minions -he would be able to control waves really well No champion can do that -Nostalgia (Gangplank was able to kill his own minion with his e back in past they removed it because he would come to lane at lvl 1 with 4 minions and it was also awkward to use it in teamfights since you wouldnt be able to activate your e unless there were minions around) -he could possibly stack faster those serpents which is a good.

I doubt that would be enough of buff so here is another one!

**Barrels - it would be cool if gangplank could make them start rotating (; **

So when Gangplank uses w on already placed barrel. The Second Barrel knocks the first to start rotating 800 range away. If a barrel bumps an enemy champion / minion it explodes dealing damage.

Width - Well barrels are a bit wider when they are on a side Travel speed 1000 (So quite fast)

Plz comment I want to hear your thoughs