Played against a GP. His CD on his gunshot was so fast and did so much damage just pushed me out of lane on akali. I have never been pushed like that by GP. His gunshot was on such a short CD I couldn't even farm. He just kept shooting me. I landed full combos on him and did about 1/4 of his health. He hit me with 1 gunshot and did the same amount to me. Come on Riot! This is nutty! This needs to be fixed. If he goes tank runes, than he shouldn't have damage too!
Colton1472 votesGangplank is melee.
He has a weak early game.
He's squishy.
Don't let him poke you out of lane.
JJI7441 votesKleptomancy mastery. Goodbye weak early-game, now strong (vs. melee at least) thanks to a steady flow of potions and elixers, along with broken lvls of gold income.
Sujiren2 votesYou itemized incorrectly I bet. As Akali you should have srarted Dorans shield vs Gp, rushed seekers armguard, then go into your gunblade, add in a ninja tabi if you are really struggling. Had you done that before he got fed, he wouldn't be able to bully you out due to your tankyness and natural sustain + gunblade sustain when you actually get it, and you could just zone/ all in him every time he walks up with your ult.
JJI7441 votesShort version: Kleptomancy. The end.
Longer version: Due to being able to both proc and apply the mastery/rune with Q, GP will basically come out of lane (against a melee anyway) with 1000+ gold lead from just the mastery. On top of that, the steady stream of elixers/potions makes his lane-phase actually strong. Basically even if you avoid dying, GP is going to come out of lane fed anyway. We are talking Trinity at 12 minutes without any kills.
Sujiren1 votesThe problems with kleptomancy GP:
1)Its a terrible keystone lategame, like if the game goes long enough were gold becomes irrelevant, then gp basically has no keystone.
If Gp goes full moneymaker build aka kleptomancy / spellthiefs/ cull, you can again hard punish him for a greedy and shitty early buy ( stat wise), and if your jungler is smart he will spam gank his ass, and end laning phase early. Kleptomancy is pretty garbage out of laning phase.
Gp still has a hard time laning vs most ranged champions that can destroy his kegs from range, and can punish him when he goes for Q / zone from cs.
JJI7441 votesIf GP makes it to lategame, he doesn't need a mastery to win.
Fair enough, but spam-ganking is a pretty effective plan against most (not quite all) champions.
I did specify melee matchups.
Sujiren1 votesI think people overvalue the keystone. I watched Tobias yesterday, the keystone was amazing in the early game, but became irrelevant post 10 minutes, he actually made more money with spellthiefes edge, than he did with kleptomancy.
Also fun fact, if Gp is spamming his Q on you for Kleptomancy, then he is not using it to last hit minions with it, and not getting bonus gold / silver serpents from that, so he does not get as ahead as you think he does.
General Esdeath 1 votesWhat was he running? Do you know?
