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The "Gangplank Problem"

DegenERICK·3/4/2018, 1:07:22 PM·1 votes·602 views

Gangplank is still as oppressive and unkillable as ever.

If you are not playing Darius or Riven and they pick Gangplank well, time to get bullied for 30 minutes by a hyperscaling late game champ.

How is a champion that's basically Pantheon on steroids allowed to scale into late game? At least with Pantheon you know if you get on top of him - he's done, if you get on top of the pirate, well, he pops his barrel then runs away shooting more Q's at your face for more free gold.

What a nice design. Did I even mention you have to CONSTANTLY PLAY AROUND HIS BARRELS, and I mean constantly, those things don't have a cooldown it's like URF mode when you fight him ? Good luck dealing with those if you are not ranged. But if you are melee and somehow manage to pop them , well, GP gets ZERO punishment for it. Instead, he just puts up another one like nothing happened, and another one and so on.

Gangplank is THE EPITOME of unfun, and I've been saying this since his rework.

Extremely oppressive, extremely unfun, cowardly, and it's so hard to punish him...

HE IS NOT A HARD CHAMP EITHER, he is very easy. Ridiculously easy.

10 Comments

nm10103/4/2018, 4:02:09 PM3 votes

They should pull a Talon on him and nerf his armor while buffing mr to force him mid. I think that he is much "fairer" playing against the ranged champions and assassins mid.

Ranmaru3/4/2018, 1:16:20 PM2 votes

Gp is harder then he looks, end game you have to line up barrels fast etc, But gp is nowhere near oppresive anymore I believie that just with klepto people started looking at him and if hes on a barrel 24/ 7 your lying because his barrels last 15 seconds and the cd is 18 seconds take that 3 seconds of time window to go and jump on him

Sasogwa3/4/2018, 2:58:00 PM1 votes

The Q manacost nerf means at least he doesn't bully the shit of you as much/early as before

Ranmaru3/4/2018, 4:19:31 PM1 votes

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Gangplank is still as oppressive and unkillable as ever.

If you are not playing Darius or Riven and they pick Gangplank well, time to get bullied for 30 minutes by a hyperscaling late game champ.

How is a champion that's basically Pantheon on steroids allowed to scale into late game? At least with Pantheon you know if you get on top of him - he's done, if you get on top of the pirate, well, he pops his barrel then runs away shooting more Q's at your face for more free gold.

What a nice design. Did I even mention you have to CONSTANTLY PLAY AROUND HIS BARRELS, and I mean constantly, those things don't have a cooldown it's like URF mode when you fight him ? Good luck dealing with those if you are not ranged. But if you are melee and somehow manage to pop them , well, GP gets ZERO punishment for it. Instead, he just puts up another one like nothing happened, and another one and so on.

Gangplank is THE EPITOME of unfun, and I&

I like gp doe

Hrolfgord3/13/2018, 9:15:35 AM1 votes

I love the comments defending GP saying that hes not that strong looks at LCK But you know the best players in the world wouldnt be pick/banning him in the majority of games if he wasn't the best right???

DarwinTheory3/4/2018, 3:22:01 PM1 votes

GP is anti fun. Don't like Laning Vs him he is too safe, has gold advantage with Q and is hyper late game.

Bad combo.

greekvandaL3/4/2018, 1:43:49 PM1 votes

Darius loses to Gankplank as long as Gankplank doesnt go klepto.

Also his barrels have a rather high cd if he blows all 3 of them pre 13.

I'm not defending gp he is a boring champion and annoying to deal with but at least if you gonna bitch do it properly.