Powder keg delay? Keep kicking Powder keg damage? Keep kicking Powder keg armor pen? Keep kicking Parrrley mana refund? Keep kicking Base hp? Keep kicking and now from total armor to bous armor, another nerf to his powder keg damage! Keep kicking
and hes still oppressive and does too much damage to be fair
In my opinion the only thing Riot should ever have touched is the barrels. Well, they have tried to nerf them but with the wrong methods. Back ago, in patch 5.17 they added the 0.25 second cast time on barrels which made it impossible to do some of the wombo combos with them as you can't place barrels so quickly anymore. If you dont know what I'm talking about, watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2k8Q2WrE0Y
This makes things clunky for skilled GP players and isn't the right way how to balance Gangplank. Powder Keg **bonus dmg **reduction in patch 5.18 is what Riot should have kept doing. They could even have removed the whole bonus dmg as an AoE crit is enough to keep him relevant. I don't even understand why they had to put that bonus there when they made his rework. Then in 5.21 came the Parrrley and base hp nerfs... Doesn't Riot understand that his barrels are the problem because people can't play against it (either it's undodgeable or people are too lazy to try disarm it...). Another thing why patch 5.21 nerfs were bad is that it doesn't affect good GP players. Myself I eliminate the mana problems by starting with 
and the hp reduce by never fighting my opponent (ofc, I sometimes use barrels for poking). Riot made GP's laning pure afk farming.
So what is the way to nerf GP? Simply make it easier to dodge the barrels by increasing the time between linked barrel explosions. This was already mentioned in an another thread when patch 5.17 came out.
What to do summarized:
Buffs:
Nerfs:
Possible Powder Keg armor penetration adjustements could be made if the situation needs it.
Am I the only one who feels that his laning is also horrible now? I honestly feel useless until I get Trinity and LV13
