User blog comment:YourPrivateNightmare/Why I think the Gangplank rework failed/@comment-33536623-20150726232030/@comment-5077844-20150727081438

i honestly suspect that they rushed his rework because they wanted to bring out the Bilgewater event. thus they only marginally reworked him (aka "E is crap, give him something else") and fancied up most of his old kit.

He's really not that well thought out tbh