Talk:Gangplank/@comment-50.103.0.67-20110723191113

All this pub-scrub screaming is just going to get Gangplank nerfed back into the crapper, I swear. It's not that ol' GP doesn't need nerfing (he does, just a little). It's when Riot nerfs a champ, they don't just make adjustments; they truncheon the champ into uselessness or near-uselessness.

Such as it was when they nixed the Deny from GP and *then* sodomized his ultimate. I played GP during his Suck Phase, and honestly, while he could be passable (relying heavily on a passive-aggressive-farm strategy or a vastly-overrated critplank build; it felt like I was playing frickin NASUS), there were much MUCH better melee DPS picks than him.

If there is one change they could/should make to Gangplank, it's to remove his passive from Parrrley. Currently, I find GP's Slow-Poison passive to be spot-on-balanced..when you remove the free stack from the pistol (before, it was a total joke). As melee, it should create an incentive to play smart and dirty, rather than giving the DPS monster a free chasing mechanism (a problem I have with Vayne and Ashe, though at least you pay for the privilege with Ashe). Also, early game, that random pistol harass is nasty when you can stack the poison.

But of course, the scrubs want nothing more than to watch Gangplank get nerfed up the jacksy with a fork, and I fear that's what will happen...again.