Talk:Gangplank/@comment-26331429-20150915002238/@comment-5955640-20150915021812

That wasn't a good kit. You liked it but it was bad. Too many different ways to build him and only one way worked which was indeed crit plank.

You are quite wrong on this. I've been here with Gangplank for that many years as well. And Gangplank was barely reliable. His damage required absolutely required his main full build items which took a very long time to build. He only had one form of attack which was his Q. Sustain plank was just to troll and his AOE was very weak for a very long time.

Ontop of that of all things his build became toxic. E gave away free bonus to everyone surrounding the champ despite the fact that he's not a support and is packing serious damage himself.

The crazy thing about your complaint about he rework is that you didn't actually lose anything with this rework. Barrels slow. You deal true damage instead of magic so it scales into late game better. Critical strike is weaker but you ignore armor so it chunks roughly the same amount of damage in an AOE and now if you farm a lot you can get a really effective ult that grants buffs to allies and deals additional damage to enemies.

He's a pick and ban now because he's good. Before he was really useless.

You had to carry him for 30 minutes and hope that he chose crit plank or else you were going to lose most fights due to the lack of bruiser CC and focus that a top laner usually has and the lack of DPS that melee carries usually have.