Does Lethality benefit or hurt Gangplank?

Onwodori··1 votes·1,640 views

Hey there, Onwodori here.

So with the overhaul of Lethality and assassin items in general, I of course am wondering how my favorite Pirate King will feel. In short order:

item 3142 Is now cheaper and has bonus movement speed for him (MS was not beneficial) item 3147 On hit true damage is fantastic, especially if you build the other Lethality items item 3814 Incredible for him on paper, just missing CDR really item 3252 Being one of the best at blowing up local chicken camps, you can steal those away decently consistent.

So, again, on paper, he gotten a lot strong but it's hard to say just how armor pen translates to lethality and vice versa. Armor Pen GP's strength came from the sudden spike in power when you complete item 3078 item 3142 Going by how ADCs are tooling currently, that spike isn't as prevalent.

Thoughts?

-Onwodori

EDIT - Something really cool, I realized, is that you can realistically have a spoopy full damage build like this for a surprisingly low cost.

item 3078 item 3814 item 3142 item 3036 item 3009 / item 3158 item 3147

3 Comments

feryvunny2 votes

Poacher's dirk sucks dick mainly because the CD is so long. You have to invade at 3 separate occasions and have to have the enemy jungler or mid-laner not take the camp. For the amount of time and risk it takes to get your 3 poaches, it's not worth the measly gold you save. Especially considering you might want to build multiple lethality items. That means you have to stack another poacher...

I don't think it hurts GP so much as other champs like twitch and lucian. GP will be spending all early game farming and building triforce anyway so the early game nerf to arm pen (lethality) wouldn't hurt too much. That's what I think at least

Onwodori1 votes

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Poacher's dirk sucks dick mainly because the CD is so long. You have to invade at 3 separate occasions and have to have the enemy jungler or mid-laner not take the camp. For the amount of time and risk it takes to get your 3 poaches, it's not worth the measly gold you save. Especially considering you might want to build multiple lethality items. That means you have to stack another poacher...

I don't think it hurts GP so much as other champs like twitch and lucian. GP will be spending all early game farming and building triforce anyway so the early game nerf to arm pen (lethality) wouldn't hurt too much. That's what I think at least

I'd imagine he'd stack just one of them throughout the course of the game - Mid is Mia, take their chickens. Roam up to top? Take their krugs.

feryvunny2 votes

You underestimate how long it takes to take krugs now lol chickens maybe. But any half brained jungler will have done their camps in their rotation before jungling. You're just assuming the jungler is noob enough to leave his camps.

Mid-game game maybe you'd have a better chance to steal camps. But there are tons of better things you could be doing as a mid-laner then taking a camp. You'd probably make more gold shoving your wave or take an objective or help gank a lane.

Poacher's is a jungler item, not a mid-laner's. Even then it's still meh. CD is too long

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