Talk:Gangplank/@comment-26331429-20160924101455/@comment-26459891-20160924225609

Barrels.

 Barrels made him the hyperscaling champion he is, and being one he should not have the free gold gain. It's simpl counterintuitive.

 Old Gangplank is no more. He's a COMPLETELY new champion, despite "only" his E was truly changed. There's no such thing as Tankplank or AP GP anymore, because Barrels are what he is all about now. Big, fat, long range damage.

Karthus is very similiar in the way he plays the early game and scales into the late game, and he doesn't have (or need) any form of boost to his gold income.

It is simply something they left on GP's kit since it was there before his rework, clearly not predicting how it would affect new Gangplank, and now they do not want to remove it completely because people are attached to it or whatever.

It is also true that as long as Barrels are untouched (as they should be), Gangplank will still be relevant no matter what kind of nerf they do to him, but they could get away with much less drastical nerfs if they just removed the extra gold generation imo. The super waveclear and the ultimate is enough, the extra gold is overkill and in order to keep it they had to nerf his ulti and base stats to the ground.