User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/Why I think the Gangplank rework failed/@comment-24704296-20150725183347/@comment-5955640-20150725232124

No it isn't. There isn't a punchline to Gangplank using fruit because pirates ate fruit. There is absurdity in eating fruit to solve these magical ailments but i'll remind you that magic doesn't exist so it's no more absurd to cleanse yourself of crowd control that doesn't exist in real life than it is to eat oranges that are healthy for you and do ward off ailments but they just don't ward off magical spells.

Ontop that it mechnically makes sense. Most Melee champs have some sort of sustain or bonus resistance that they have on hand to wade through combat and crowd control. For gangplank it's the fruit that he eats because he's a PIRATE.