The New Gangplank Splash Looks Vastly Different

Trading Aces·Aug 2, 2015·37 votes·5,962 views

Large full lips, overly protruding cheekbones, a kooky hat, and a general appearance that screams brute/grunt rather than intelligent and menacing captain. While I've no true quarrel with his attire, his face is something that'll never be agreeable with me. It's very obviously the same new direction that was shown on Fiora's new splash. Shortly put, I'm not a fan of these extremes. The Splash face looks nothing like the model and barely bears a resemblance to the Burning Tides epilogue art.

53 Comments

Reynard the ƒoxAug 2, 201537 votes

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Mike KachowskiAug 2, 201510 votes

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I really don't understand why you're getting downvoted

A Miss FortuneAug 3, 20154 votes

Because he's lying and everyone secretly does.

Gangplank

exe3Aug 2, 20159 votes

He doesn't look like Gangplank and doesn't exude the qualities of who Gangplank is. This whole "Gangplank died" thing has been a disaster from disabling Gangplank to this new (vastly inferior and I dare say out of place looking) base look. I'm already getting the skin but if feels off using a skin to depict the real version of the character, almost like Trundle.

Rito StaffAug 2, 20153 votes

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He doesn't look like Gangplank and doesn't exude the qualities of who Gangplank is. This whole "Gangplank died" thing has been a disaster from disabling Gangplank to this new (vastly inferior and I dare say out of place looking) base look.

Says who that it was a disaster? You? Lots of people including me liked it.

But his new base looks fatter and different indeed.

LearndingAug 3, 20153 votes

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He doesn't look like Gangplank and doesn't exude the qualities of who Gangplank is. This whole "Gangplank died" thing has been a disaster from disabling Gangplank to this new (vastly inferior and I dare say out of place looking) base look. I'm already getting the skin but if feels off using a skin to depict the real version of the character, almost like Trundle.

Why are people even downvoting this guy? The one time they try to do the lore correctly, they disable a champion and make his character model even worse than his original one. Not to mention every one of his skins have drastically went down in value for how terribly garbage they look. Sailor GP was never used to begin with, and I'm 100% sure it's going to be used even less.

exe3Aug 3, 20151 votes

It's because I have a differing opinion to some others. This is what an upvote/downvote system does. It prevents most discussions from taking place because you don't have to actually put forward an alternate point of view, just click a contextless button to express how you feel about the post regardless of if it's right or wrong.

LearndingAug 3, 20151 votes

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It's because I have a differing opinion to some others. This is what an upvote/downvote system does. It prevents most discussions from taking place because you don't have to actually put forward an alternate point of view, just click a contextless button to express how you feel about the post regardless of if it's right or wrong.

That's totally what it's used for, not a preface to instill a generalized, overused, and abused system to determine what's popular and what's not based on the popularity of the poster or if he/she is on anyone's shit list.

Markus KruberAug 3, 20159 votes

YARRRR http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HjKdDYDhF64/VZwag7d4nkI/AAAAAAAAtIg/m8NO7HpXnYo/s1920/GP_Splash_WP.jpg

DUUUUH DUR DUR https://s15-us2.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http:%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-f_L8WtKYsKI%2FVb5UJoBpLII%2FAAAAAAAAu0E%2FcvSJH5AV4AY%2Fs1920%2FGP_Splash_WP2.jpg&sp=78fd79ba05fc462581e07bbc2480cfa0 He looks like a primitive ape/gorilla gragas skin

Celio Hogane HDAug 3, 20151 votes

Just going to say this:

https://vestuarioescenico.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/1812-regencia-hombres-con-corset.jpg

Doctor DymentAug 2, 20158 votes

Well, I dare say surviving an explosion that killed everyone else on board would give at least some reason as to why he looks as he does now.

Trading AcesAug 2, 201510 votes

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Well, I dare say surviving an explosion that killed everyone else on board would give at least some reason as to why he looks as he does now.

It explains the arm and - if he had ANY - facial scars, but it would not excuse a change in facial structure. I already stated I no true qualm with his general appearance as it somewhat plausible.

sp441Aug 2, 20158 votes

Meanwhile I'm wondering where he got his silly new hat... did he stop at the hat shop on his way to the doctor?

Gangplank :"Well, I'm bleeding profusely from every pore and haven't been in so much pain since the last time I went binge-drinking with Gragas, but I gotta make time for this, ain't right for a Captain to be seem without a hat."

NechroniaAug 2, 20153 votes

To be fair, the picture of him from the epilogue shows him with his new arm and without the hat (The real twist of burning tides is the fact that GP has a mohawk) so I assume he got that afterwords.

AnstoroAug 3, 20151 votes

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Meanwhile I'm wondering where he got his silly new hat... did he stop at the hat shop on his way to the doctor?

:"Well, I'm bleeding profusely from every pore and haven't been in so much pain since the last time I went binge-drinking with Gragas, but I gotta make time for this, ain't right for a Captain to be seem without a hat."

It was probably one of his crew mates' hat and he got his hair all burned up so he needed it to still look good for any ladies the passes

BlackxHokageAug 2, 20155 votes

I honestly thought the splash was a new champ b4 I saw gangplanks name

Lajinn5Aug 3, 20154 votes

Hmm, I'd say you can somewhat justify him looking different, the new gangplank doesn't seem like a captain at all, which is somewhat fitting. I'm guessing the new skin is a few years after the current events in Bilgewater, given that he has a shiny new metal arm and looks a lot more ragged. Its likely at this point he isn't even a captain anymore, he's just a man with no crew or followers to speak of. I think this kind of makes sense because like you said Gangplank is smart, he wouldn't go immediately try and reclaim his titles, Bilgewater is to cutthroat for such a thing to work, he's a feared man with no allies and no followers, in a world like Bilgewater the only place that'll leave you is dead in a gutter with your throat slit. There's a reason he paid the doc for secrecy, if anybody found out he was alive they're more likely to try and kill him to make a name for themselves then to help him, he literally has nothing left to his name. He'd also have to deal with Miss Fortune, who has an entire crew and powerful ship behind her. Gangplank would have to go into hiding if he wanted to survive after the explosion.

OysterothAug 2, 20153 votes

Yeah it doesn't even look like him

KotexAug 2, 20153 votes

I can't understand why his base skin needs to be changed to this at all. It would make more sense to leave it as a separate skin rather than using it to replace his default classic look in it's entirety. I mean they didn't make captain fortune the base miss fortune so why does gangplank need to be changed to fit the event lore?

Vellich0rAug 3, 20152 votes

I mean, if you like captain plank, just play him. free skins OP

Trading AcesAug 3, 20151 votes

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I mean, if you like captain plank, just play him. free skins OP

I just want the Splash to be up to par.

Tesla EffectAug 2, 20153 votes

Dont care, free skin. Suck it complainers.

WeissritterAug 3, 20153 votes

Bro if I got a free gift and it was a bag of turds I'd still complain. ):

Eh, I don't get why they needed to do a new look like this and all it's kind of silly... this entire event now seems like a dumb excuse to change GP to a new look they wanted to originally but didn't want to due to potential backlash so they used this to justify it.

I just feel its stupid to make captain fortune a skin and keep the original as default but change GP's default and make the old default a skin. Makes no sense lmfao

Tesla EffectAug 3, 20151 votes

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Bro if I got a free gift and it was a bag of turds I'd still complain. ):

Eh, I don't get why they needed to do a new look like this and all it's kind of silly... this entire event now seems like a dumb excuse to change GP to a new look they wanted to originally but didn't want to due to potential backlash so they used this to justify it.

I just feel its stupid to make captain fortune a skin and keep the original as default but change GP's default and make the old default a skin. Makes no sense lmfao

Stop complaining, you still have Captain Gangplank and his own personal VO. Why do people complain when you get a quality skin for free!? And no you using the word turn only shows how much salty you are about this.

WeissritterAug 3, 20152 votes

I actually don't care as much BECAUSE I'm getting captain GP as a skin with the VO. I'm slightly salty over him being disabled mostly, not much else :) I just tend to have weird analogies and I couldn't think of anything other than like bags of turds that kids in my area sometimes used as jokes.

I said I think it's silly, didn't say its the end of the world etc. I just don't get why they'd take the approach of making the new look the new base instead of a skin like all the other skins used for this event that depict how they look during it.

Final Raid BossAug 2, 20152 votes

yeah what the hell is with this splash, totally different person honestly

frost shinigamiAug 3, 20152 votes

The splash art right after his rework was SO - MUCH - BETTER. It really reflected GP's menacing and manipulative captain persona.

Vellich0rAug 3, 20154 votes

That was when he was a menacing and manipulative captain. Now he is a burned and changed man, looking for vengeance.

Celio Hogane HDAug 3, 20152 votes

KALISTA I NEED Y ah wait i was not a betrayal.

frost shinigamiAug 4, 20151 votes

prepare yourselves for some disturbing fanfics D:

frost shinigamiAug 4, 20152 votes

Good point there, never thought it that way.

http://imgur.com/r/gif/zzSDo

You made an excellent point. :D

Celio Hogane HDAug 3, 20153 votes

you mean the thing he lost?

Ranger AzerethAug 3, 20152 votes

I'm not really a fan of the new VU he's just got. I enjoyed the updated splash before this one. Bummer with the art style the way they're going with older champions it seems. I think it's bad when you have so many threads about it for two VU's in a row. (fiora and now GP) I would really start to reconsider the practices going forward. To each their own though, I don't play GP so I won't have to use his skins/splash art.

KatCraftAug 3, 20151 votes

The magnitude of outcry people had over Fiora isn't even comparable to Gangplank. A lot of people were genuinely upset. With GP it's just mild indifference.

Shadow PuppetAug 3, 20152 votes

I have to agree. Look at captain gangplank. His cheek bones look flat and his lips, thin. He looked old but still had a chiseled face. Now his cheekbones look so defined and fleshy. More like an orc or ogre than his previous tanned old sailor face.

If you told me this was the splash for a new champion, I wouldn't think twice about it. Still an awesome job by riot. ;)

Ebonmaw DragonAug 2, 20151 votes

Agreed, he should be uglier Urgot

TheFancySkeletonAug 3, 20151 votes

WAIT. Gangplank has a much bigger gut as we can see... Maybe he blows up again and becomes Urgot. Both are chubby, missing limbs, that sort of thing.

I'm joking don't take this literally.

JohnnyNoxidAug 3, 20151 votes

He was intelligent?

Trading AcesAug 3, 20155 votes

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He was intelligent?

He was a captain of his own ship. He ruled the whole of Bilgewater. He formed alliances between the gangs. Yes, yes he was intelligent. You don't get head honcho through just brute strength.

"As unpredictable as he is brutal, the self-appointed reaver king known as Gangplank rules Bilgewater through a mix of fear, violence, and cunning."

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he is not the man he was. that night... the things he saw, it changed him

and apparently gave him lip injections and some extra plastic surgery.

JohnnyNoxidAug 3, 20153 votes

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He was a captain of his own ship. He ruled the whole of Bilgewater. He formed alliances between the gangs. Yes, yes he was intelligent. You don't get head honcho through just brute strength.

"As unpredictable as he is brutal, the self-appointed reaver king known as Gangplank rules Bilgewater through a mix of fear, violence, and cunning."

and apparently gave him lip injections and some extra plastic surgery.

Ok, well when did intelligence have a certain look? I tell you what, I homeless man can be miles smarter about a particular subject than some guy that can afford an expensive suit and when to college.

J4kzyAug 3, 20151 votes

he is not the man he was. that night... the things he saw, it changed him