At what point in the game is Gangplank ever weak?

waiting for WoW·1/31/2018, 9:31:15 AM·4 votes·2,114 views

He has become one of the safest and best laners in the entire game. This is a champion that is supposed to be a late game scaling beast but right now he is a legitimate lane bully, has tier 1 waveclear, amazing playmaking potential once he hits level 6, and snowballs like crazy if he gets even a little bit ahead.

Gangplank has a free QSS, deals substantial true damage that scales amazingly well, gets free movement speed, and can generate higher gold than anyone he lanes against.

I don't even play top lane but how has this champion not been nerfed or weakened in some phase of the game?

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Jamaree1/31/2018, 9:34:20 AM2 votes

Past season 2 when the atmogs meta was out and he sat subpar and niche until his rework, then when he sat at a balanced state before the new runes with only one person playing him prominently.

The Ecdysiast1/31/2018, 9:36:37 AM2 votes

Because it's not his fault. On the two champions Klepto actually works on, it's broken because its sole purpose is to increase income. That means they get their Trinity force long before they're supposed to, and so they're at their mid-game strength too early.

TekkenPlayer1/31/2018, 9:45:06 AM2 votes

Camille Akali Gnar Jayce Trundle Urgot Cassiopeia Pantheon Nasus does pretty well vs gangplank. I can name more off the top of my head that have solid ways of dealing with him

nelogis1/31/2018, 9:58:25 AM1 votes

He is weak in the early game

You have to see it like this: Gangplank is weak against bulky champions or assassins You know what a bulky champion are?... Bruisers There are only a handful Bruisers left top and assassins generally don't go top because of the tanks

There are only Tanks and poke Champs Gangplank does EXTREMELY well against tanks Gangplank doesn't care about poke champs other than Panth and Teemo Gangplank no longer has a "natural" enemy in top, so he has a free to go card for his early game There are no champions left in top that try to kill the enemy in the early game because that's what Bruisers do There are no REAL Bruisers left in top

Give Gangplank his natural enemy back and he will start losing the early game again But that means Riot has to fix Bruisers Which is something that is not going to happen right now

Harden Stepback1/31/2018, 4:04:15 PM1 votes

He's not weak ever... that's why he's a ban worthy pick right now.

Rexxiee1/31/2018, 4:11:24 PM1 votes

When hes banned in champ select.

He has never been weak ever since his rework, they turned him into a unbalanceable mess.

EsoEs2/1/2018, 3:08:35 AM1 votes

It's more stopwatch than anything else Imo.. First time you gank him, he flashes, next time you gank him, he stopwatches, third gank.. he has flash again, has probably ulted bot and turned that lane to enemy team's favor, and is preventing your top from getting 50% of last hits by just putting down a barrell and threatening an all-in.

Stopwatch is too good at bridging the "early game weakness" of a lot of different champions to their scaling hyper carry-mid/late game status.