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GangPlank revamp/ruined GP How to balance...

WangPlank·8/15/2015, 3:20:21 AM·1 votes·745 views

Ok so as many of you may know, the new GangPlank has quite a few flaws and has honestly lost a lot from his kit which his upgradable ult and E do not make up for. Especially since his ult upgrade is nearly impossible to achieve in a real game. Unless you're playing a 40+ minute game you are not going to get the farm to get 500 serpents to purchase cannon barrages upgrade.

I am talking about using hydra/shiv to help farm them with his E too.

Either his cannon barrage upgrade needs to cost far less or buff his E with a combo bonus for each minion destroyed by it at the same time he gains an additional 5 serpents or something.

Ideally just lower it. Also, the timer should not be viewable to enemies, it completely ruins it and anyone with a brain will disarm it before ever going near it.

I constantly find myself having set them and they are destroyed by a ranged champ before I can set it off in lane at times. The fact they can see the timer is BS. Also the fact that it is being attacked by them and it doesnt explode still is BS. It should still do damage to minions not be disarmed...

Developers please respond.

3 Comments

sp4418/15/2015, 3:32:25 AM3 votes

How the FUCK is his Cannonball Barrage upgrade impossible to achieve before the 40 minute mark? Maybe if you're going for all 3, but if you're playing him right, you should be getting an upgrade by the 20 minute mark. And that's assuming you're not dominating your lane and just racking up the dough.

And his E needs those weaknesses in place in order to justify it's ridiculous power. Massive amounts of AoE physical damage that slow, boost GP's movement speed, reset his powerful passive, and deal almost True Damage from Level 1? If they DON'T have a lot of counterplay towards it, they become OP as fuck.

insaiyanbacca8/15/2015, 4:08:22 AM1 votes

lol i normally get two upgrades per game unless i failed lane hard

Tworie8/15/2015, 4:28:02 AM1 votes

The trick to playing Gangplank... is to learn how to use your barrels properly and to build crit damage and armor

I upgraded my ult twice in one game, you must be really bad at Gangplank.

and he didn't lose "a lot" from kit either... his E before was useless and before then he only had 2 damaging abilities - his ult and his Q