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the new gangplank felt horrible

IonChamber·7/25/2015, 8:48:07 AM·2 votes·955 views

So I was on vacation and I'm trying to feel everything back out after being off the computer for over a week, but I was so excited to try the new gangplank.

I just felt like he was really, really bad.

  1. the new ult does so little damage even with both the damage upgrades, it just felt so weak.
  2. the huge nerf on ap ratios for ult and heal made iceborne gauntlet trash on him and made him a lot squishier.
  3. for some reason he felt a LOT squishier building tankplank.
  4. the barrels... I don't know what to say here. Any champion with a ranged AA eliminates any pre-teamfight set-up. If you want to get a spread, it will just take too long mid-teamfight (it felt like anyways.) It felt super out of place. It's not even great in lane because its just SO easy to dodge. Maybe it's great to bully pure melees? But outside of lane, the only thing this is used for is farming silver serpents and more gold with parley.

Anyone else have thoughts or feel the same?

8 Comments

SaltyKracka7/25/2015, 8:52:47 AM2 votes

"Huge nerf on AP ratios for W"

It's literally .9 instead of 1.0.

Stop being a drama llama.

Critmaster Garen7/25/2015, 8:58:52 AM1 votes

youre supposed to throw down a barrel and time a parrley properly to spread the q damage over the entire explosion radius with additional armor pen.

also, i feel like people didnt realize that when they explode a barrel with a q, they get bonus gold and serpents for every minion the barrel kills. it basically treats the explosion as if all units in the area were hit by the q.

ive seen people use this to their advantage when waveclearing in lane and do very well.

this should probably even work with his passive. i havent tried yet.

IonChamber7/25/2015, 9:20:59 AM1 votes

Oh no I realized it and farmed tons of serpents no problem that was no problem.

I just felt like his ult, his parley, and his heal were all significantly reduced.

Just my feelings. Perhaps I'm wrong.

SoberToaster7/25/2015, 11:14:48 AM1 votes

+1 riot completely obliterated gangplank. if they wanted to make donkeykong a character they could have made a new one instead of steamrolling over an old one. he's all ZOMG "minigame" barrelmaster now. LAME. thanks for ruining my favorite character riot. one that I bought 80% of the skins for that i will probably never play again. He was simple, he was fun. he was destroyed.

shadecrapper7/25/2015, 3:15:26 PM1 votes

item 3025 item 3035 item 3031 item 3087 item 3065 item 3047 Im still trying to find the best build for him, but this seems to be pretty good.