Wrote an article on a possible of gangplank rework. Chances of morello or anyone who works for the balnce team are slim but I can still hope. Any constructive feedback from anyone in this community would be appreciated. :D
Its on a google doc that anyone can view. Hope you enjoy it. (Edit the proper link is in the comments)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OIJ3FLXGkCxl1sUpJhr238L_NY6eoBixPsku6gnPOHU
-General Clean
Clearing up some confusion in the thread: This article was not written by morello, OP wrote is and is trying to get morello's attention. Feel free to hate morello's design choices, just know that this wasn't one of his brainchildren.
I agree
I like it
Gangplank main here, you completely lost me on the removal of Remove Scurvy. I'm sorry for my French, but Walk the Plank is RETARDED. Your reasoning is BULLSHIT. Twisted Fate Gold Cards? UWOTM8? Have you forgotten Morgana? You know, the bot lane terror that has a "my team reported me for AFK" 3 second long snare that doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon? What about Enchanted Crystal Arrow? Ahri's Charm? Fiddlesticks' Terror? All of these abilities have HUGE durations of complete loss of control, and Gangplank stands out from any of the other champions because of this.
ult? Eat oranges and be k.
ult? Eat oranges and be k.
wither? Eat oranges and be k.
Gangplank doesn't need a gap closer because he has Remove Scurvy. You flat out said that you're keeping Grog Soaked Blade and are BUFFING it. Why the fuck would he need a gap closer when he can slow any champions whose names aren't Evelynn, Master Yi, and Olaf with constant ranged harass, and if they use crowd control to disengage, you eat oranges and be K. Worst case scenario you pop your ult to cut off your opponent's escape route. Of course, there'd be nothing stopping Gangplank from building TriEdgeGhostblade to just cheese your enemies with 1600 Parrrley damage, but I've thought ahead of that.
How about instead of nerfing Parrley's range, you gut it's damage. And for each stack of Grog-Soaked blade on the target, they take 1.2 - 2% of their missing health on Parrley hit. It's meant to be his bread and butter farm ability, and the thing that makes Gangplank the pimp daddy of top lane. Gangplank ain't meant to scale hard, he's meant to scale fast. He doesn't get to do 500 bonus damage endgame like Nasus, because he uses the gold to put himself far ahead in terms of itemization, not a ball of stats.
He just needs actual gameplay around his passive and his E. Possibly even adding gameplay to his W.
Gotta love the 
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Just don't touch Parley (if anything unnerf it), his crit dynamic is the main reason I fell in love with him back even before season 1.
Edit: Dont fucking remove Remove Scurvy Morello, you want to homogenize Gangplank by giving him a mandatory gapcloser and hard cc? We have plenty of those champions, why turn Gangplank into one more?
If you can't design successful kits without the mandatory cc/gapcloser/aa reset then there is something wrong with your game designers. You are enforcing the meta and homogenizing the roster even more.
The reason why I still play champions like shaco, Ash and GP is because they are very unique compared to todays champions. Common Morello.
