How to counter Gangplank. Throw any range champion top lane

taleofsonata·Aug 6, 2015·4 votes·6,346 views

Literally any champion that is a ranged champion can go against GP top. In Teamfight yea you can throws many barrel. Kalista gonna love using them as mobility tools.

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VoidgolemAug 6, 20153 votes

how to counter ranged tops as Gangplank:

Combo better. You can do some -insane- shit with barrel chains.

Lokis RagnarokOct 8, 20151 votes

The time between each "link" in the barrel chain is retardedly long, the new gp is just a retard counter. Any half decent player won't have an issue, but morons will QQ cause they somehow got hit by a barrel.

taleofsonataAug 6, 20153 votes

the explosion chain DOESN"T NOT WORK ON RANGED CHAMPION, there is no RANGE champion stupid enough to let you chain barrel for you to detonate them

VoidgolemAug 6, 20152 votes

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the explosion chain DOESN"T NOT WORK ON RANGED CHAMPION, there is no RANGE champion stupid enough to let you chain barrel for you to detonate them

really. Which ranged champion is so fast that they can outrun a Q, considering barrel-drop has no cast time?

it's a 60 second duration and you can lug around up to like five barrels at a time (on a fairly short recharge cooldown). You appear to be vastly underestimating gangplank's potential reach with these chains.

Sir YamazukiAug 6, 20151 votes

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really. Which ranged champion is so fast that they can outrun a Q, considering barrel-drop has no cast time?

it's a 60 second duration and you can lug around up to like five barrels at a time (on a fairly short recharge cooldown). You appear to be vastly underestimating gangplank's potential reach with these chains.

He's talking about lane, which you don't store 5 nor does the HP of the barrel drop rapidly. So, the ranged opponent would have to be bad to allow GP to chain them in lane. Barrels in lane are far more effective against melee opponents.

OperationDEEZ1Aug 6, 20152 votes

Garen

Radnar the boldAug 6, 20151 votes

My friend played quinn top against gp......GP never stood a chance.

disregardableAug 6, 20152 votes

I went against a Teemo and wrecked him. Even if he was able to one hit my barrels every time but twice.

Critmaster GarenAug 6, 20151 votes

i won a bot lane matchup against a trist.

came out like 4/2 and ahead in farm against her and her alistar with a braum at my side.

if youre up against ranged champions, you have to work with explosion chains. throw a barrel somewhere next to you, or into a bush, where they either cant target it directly or its out of range for them.

then throw a barrel in their face, and explode the first one with a q. the barrel on top of your opponent will explode before it even decays to 2 hitpoints, or he gets an auto attack off on it.

by the way, thats the same way you work with these things in teamfights. place them at sneaky spots, around corners in bushes or over walls and use them to ignite barrels that you throw into the enemy team.

Critmaster GarenAug 6, 20151 votes

you can also simply time your q animation better so the q hits exact the right moment, when the second stack decays. if youre shooting at it, when it only has one heal bar left, then yea. your opponent will probably take it out before you can get the shot off.

learn the timing, and youll even destroy barrels that are in attack range of your enemy.

taleofsonataAug 6, 20151 votes

OK here where you don't see the problem. Even if you time your Q animation when you see the white thing around the barrel spinning. Your Q takes time to hit and its not actually instant. A champion with attack speed can instantly shut down a barrel.

Critmaster GarenAug 6, 20151 votes

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OK here where you don't see the problem. Even if you time your Q animation when you see the white thing around the barrel spinning. Your Q takes time to hit and its not actually instant. A champion with attack speed can instantly shut down a barrel.

ok, heres what you didnt understand from my post. apart from ignoring the entire explosion chain strategy. if you destroy a barrel, and it chains into a second barrel, it will spread the explosion even if the second barrel still has 3 health bars. you have to work with that. no one is fast enough to take out the 3 hitpoints in time if you throw a barrel in his face and ignite it with one youve placed before.

apart from that, if you want to hit someone with a barrel directly, learn proper timing. shoot at the barrel when it still has 2 health bars, so the shot hits exactly when the second bar decays. its gonna take practise, but over time youll get them off reliably.

this is actually something you can practise very easily in a custom game. just open one up and try to get the gap between the projectile hitting the barrel, and the second health bar decaying as close as possible. you dont even need an opponent for that. just practise until youre statisfied with your timing.

VoidgolemAug 6, 20151 votes

for what it's worth, at level 13 the timing for auto-detonation is -exactly- long enough for you to drop a barrel at max range and queue a Q on it, if you absolutely must open with a barrel on an opponent.

still better off with a safe barrel to chain off of in most cases.

taleofsonataAug 8, 20151 votes

Ranged champion are slow? since when ? how many attack speed items are there in the game?