Gankplank was fine till he became a cyborg

The Manondorf··2 votes·1,225 views

The last step of the rework of our beloved captain was a horrible decision imo and i would like to point out why:

  1. Players, especially new ones, will no longer find the Pirate Archetype they might be searching for in GP. The splash and model are going too far away from what a pirate is. If you would release the base skin you are planning to use as the extra skin that is earned by playing him, that would be just fine, nobody has to use it and it would expand the character. What comes to mind here is how new skins that would fit stories from the Journal of Justice were released a long time ago.

  2. The artificial limb he has feels off when compared to other bilgewater characters, it seems more like something that should be in Zaun.

  3. The Splash art looks horrible. The first reworked splashGangplank looks epic as an icon and as a splash and tells us so much about the nature of Gankplank. This splash made me picture the way GP epicly walked towards Twisted Fate and Graves in the 2nd Act. The new Splash looks like GP is some kind of Cyborg Viking with a Pistol who wants to beat people up.

  4. His new icon looks really alien admist the other champion icons and you can hardly spot any distinctive features. He also still doesn't look like a pirate or seaman there.

I think the first relaunch of Gangplank, that came with his rework was a great succsess, while the newest skin change was a failure. I mean all that epic story we got told over a month has its climax in an ugly, unrecognizable new Base splash, when the latest one was the best splash ever made. That is really disappointing.

Lastly i have a question:

Which Voiceover are set for the old GP extra skins (Sailor, Spooky, Sultan, Special Ops, Toy Soilder, Minuteman) and does the Captain GP keep his "current" Voiceover?

7 Comments

GreenLore4 votes

Artificial limbs aren't that uncommon among pirate characters. I mean the hook is a rather iconic for pirates,the mechancial arm is basically that,just a bit better.

And tbh,the arm doesn't really look like its from Piltover or Zaun http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wtp24ftKJWo/VU_LEu0Vb6I/AAAAAAAAppk/U1DfW8O3tDw/s640/6.jpg Now THAT is how a zaunite mechanical arm would look like.

GPs new arm could even be seen as a large glove and not an arm.

The Manondorf1 votes

The traditional makeshift replacements for limbs, that pirates are depicted to have used are iconic to a pirate archetype character. If he had a hook or a blade as an arm, that would be no problem, but he looses his individuality by becoming less of the character he was.

GreenLore1 votes

They merely added a little twist to the common pirate-theme of having a replacement for a lost limb(and honestly anything less wouldn't have made sense in a world where guys like Viktor and Urgot exist),it doesn't even look like a hightech arm.

The Manondorf1 votes

So what you are saying is that the huge metal arm doesn't feel off to you at all?

Discus1 votes

tbh he sorta looks like gragas in the new splash

Shénzhì1 votes

Yea I would have thought Gragas was originally born and bred from Bilgewater. His default skin is very similar to Gangplank's new default skin so there's some fashion-culture going on here that can be linked, right? Makes me question which part of LoL timeline he is in: before or after Bilgewater event.

idea: It states in Gragas' "quest eventually brought him to the Freljord, --" may suggest his ambitions at Bilgewater were shattered. These ambitions would have been the same hobbyist vice that Gangplank channels when he does scrimshaw. He may have fled his troubled home life to a more peaceful place, I suppose. I can imagine no-one stays in Bilgewater too long anyway.. and the recent explosive events from Miss Fortune may have encouraged a decision. Conveniently he may have no emotional anchor in Bilgewater like a family or soulmate, and all else is lost to reassure a final decision to "--search of ingredients for Runeterra's perfect pint." and "--achieved his dream of drunken blissfulness."

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