Talk:Gangplank/@comment-4499945-20151010041247/@comment-26967163-20151011125321

Here's some tips and it really helps me atm to climb up Platinium for Barrel's placement.

1)Early game, the Kegs' decay is slow, to make things faster, drop one barrel beside you. Then right away, AA it once, by the time of doing it, your barrel will be set at 1 Hit Point, ready to explode.

2)Since the added casting delay, it is not useful to drop more than two barrels, especially in higher elo where they know GP's barrel tricks. The only time you will drop more than two is when you zone someone who's stuck in between your first two barrels, there's only one way to go out (this is where you drop your third one) and your sure he can't defuse your chain.

3) A common mistake is some GP players will put all their gamble on Parrley+Barrel chain and in certain situations, your opponent will have either the opportunity to defuse your barrel or have enough time to move out of range. AA the barrel, explode the barrel chain, then do a Parrrley on it; yes it will do a little bit less damage than the initial combo but at least you are sure to hit him.

4)During laning phase (top mostly), drop a barrel in a brush. Your barrel will be at range for a chain explosion for farming or damaging your opponent, make the barrel safe and put your opponent more at risk for him by trying to defuse it and lastly, very useful to run away from a gank; Parrrley the hidden barrel, gain the MS bonus to move out.

5)You succeed to hit someone with your barrel? Don't celebrate yet! The barrel cause massive slow. When your opponent is hit by the barrel, drop another right away close/under him than Parrrley/AA the chain to explode it again; unless he got a Flash or a Dash ability, you are garanted to hit him again. (This strategy can be made during mid-late game, Lvl 13 to be the mosst efficient).

6)You want to do more damage with your barrels? Combine Flat Armor penetration and your Barrel Armor shred ability. Since the barrel's nerf (even prior), you will do more damage by synergising both than simply build a Last Whisper, stacking multiplicably %Armor Penetration.