Why Gangplank will be broken in patch 6.1

TheHurricaneGamr·12/12/2015, 2:02:04 PM·1 votes·1,468 views
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So. As an avid PBE follower, I found that Gangplank's barrels will now have 60% BONUS Armor penetration, from 40% TOTAL armor penetration. Now, if you look at the changes to last whisper, you will find that you get 45% BONUS armor penetration. This means that Gankplank's Barrels will shred through 105% of all armor that tanks build, but do slightly less damage to squishies. But then again, if you run Critplank.....(item 3078 item 3031 item 3158 item 3087 item 3508 item 3036 ), you crit on 90% of your barrels, dealing 250% damage to everybody who is in them, and negating all of their bonus armor.

12 Comments

MisterHealYoGirl12/12/2015, 2:07:25 PM5 votes

Armor pen stacks multiplicatively, actually, so with those two things (LDR and the barrels), you're only ignoring 74% of bonus armor.

RespectPlus12/12/2015, 2:21:03 PM2 votes

60% * 45% = 73%, not 105%

DREADN0UGHT12/12/2015, 2:04:30 PM1 votes

As an avid gangplank player: kewl.

Chewx12/30/2015, 3:25:20 PM1 votes

Because he's not broken already

Gommunism12/30/2015, 3:51:50 PM1 votes

Y'all know that they reverted the barrel changes and just decided to nerf his passive instead? The passive nerf is actually reasonable because it just made his early-mid game dueling/split-pushing so damn strong.

Gigahappytown12/30/2015, 4:26:36 PM1 votes

THose would be a big nerf still since bonus armor pen is always inferior to total armor pen which is one of the reasons Last whipser is garbage right now also replace shiv with pd

shiv is garbage.