Gangplank's gritty reboot is lame. Any chance of the old silly version being usable again?

Lopen·Aug 7, 2015·3 votes·497 views

Like, even if not brought back entirely, as a skin or something? I don't know. I really liked the old silly Gangplank thematically. I feel like the attempt to make him DARK or whatever has kinda stripped the soul out of the champion.

Kinda doesn't really fit his kit either. His barrel and cannon barrage abilities are really silly and you've got the guy shouting BARREL, but then he's like some manner of Zed wannabe with his quotes.

I like the changes to his kit, but I just want my old jolly pirate back.

5 Comments

Rabid HuskyAug 7, 20151 votes

hes still sorta silly in a couple of ways but the reason hes so gritty is because thats who he is in the lore trust me i loved old gp how he seemed more likely to be getting some rum with ya and talk about his latest haul as opposed to demand respect and kill you if you looked at him wrong. riot just put out a round table talk news about this but we wont be gettin the goofy pirate again sorry man best we got is captain gp

LopenAug 7, 20151 votes

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hes still sorta silly in a couple of ways but the reason hes so gritty is because thats who he is in the lore trust me i loved old gp how he seemed more likely to be getting some rum with ya and talk about his latest haul as opposed to demand respect and kill you if you looked at him wrong. riot just put out a round table talk news about this but we wont be gettin the goofy pirate again sorry man best we got is captain gp

And yeah I get the lore I'm just saying making him what he is is kinda forced, and the trope is oversaturated in this game, and honestly the kit is still so silly so it's not even a coherent badass character. Like he's so dark and cool... and his move set is... throwing barrels, eating oranges... yeahhh...

I'm not saying we need the old one back, but I'd buy a skin in the old style with the old VA right up.

LopenAug 7, 20151 votes

-4? Wow. Bad taste around here.

Gotta make all the champions chuu2 I guess I take back my comments I guess Riot knows the market here.

Yordle XayahAug 7, 20151 votes

I'm gonna be probably the only person on the planet to thumbs up this thread.

He used to be such a colorful unique character, now he's just this generic Captain Barbosa look-alike

LopenAug 7, 20151 votes

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I'm gonna be probably the only person on the planet to thumbs up this thread.

He used to be such a colorful unique character, now he's just this generic Captain Barbosa look-alike

Thanks.

I feel a little better about the world knowing I'm not alone on this.

In all truth I'm actually shocked that I'm in the minority to be honest. Like among the friends I play with they all want the old Gangplank back. I thought this would actually be the majority opinion!