Talk:Gangplank/@comment-87.143.83.44-20120102123712/@comment-3323227-20120106222706

My only problem with gangplank is the crit masteries and his lack of good counter play in lane. He basically sits in lane and farms while using Q on you every 5 seconds. The problem is he is melee with constant ranged harass and the cost vs cooldown is way off. He used to have higher mana costs and a second higher cooldown which made harassing with it drain his mana pool but now he can basically use it off cooldown every time and use almost no mana and pretty much keep it up without going oom unless he uses all his abilities in rotation.

If his mana costs on Q were higher like a flat 60 instead of 40-60 or his cooldown was much more in line with Volley where it starts with a high cooldown and comes down to a low cooldown he'd be fine.

With his current harass though there is little counter play outside stacking armor which has little effect if you have 0 sustain or defense as it is and once gangplank gets ahead he snowballs and is really hard to catch up to making losing lane to GP pretty much GG.