Riot i have Gangplank barrels Question

Baron von Jiggly·Jul 23, 2015·2 votes·664 views

So i was just wandering why it doesn't have a 1 hit shield from ranged champs or something. i mean i can handle it but it does get kinda annoying and spirit crushing when i set up my whole chain only to have someone with more range than the barrel blast radius to just shoot it and break it.

early game it actually isn't as bad. but in the late game when the barrels start to tick down faster it can actually become a pain in the ass if they are closer to the barrels or have more attack speed in general. i just want to know if this thought ever came up in testing and was if it made the barrels a bit overpowered or something. or was it simply not possible to make it have a shield only against ranged champs without bugs and problems

4 Comments

XrusaJul 23, 20153 votes

It's meant to be a counterplay mechanic, it would be too easy to do insane things with GP if they couldn't get blown up by anyone like that.

Baron von JigglyJul 23, 20151 votes

that's what i was thinking but for ranged champs it's some pretty heavy counterplay. i was thinking make it 1 hit when the barrel is at 1 point of health for melee and like a mini 1 hit shield than break for ranged since they outrange it's explosion. but if that makes them too op that's undestandable

XrusaJul 23, 20151 votes

Maybe, and I haven't played more than 1 new-GP game so far, but I had no problem wrecking ranged targets (who are typically squishy). I think it's meant to be super hard just because of the fact that killing a barrel resets your passive maybe?