Talk:Gangplank/@comment-25413706-20150808083453/@comment-26001789-20150808183233

Barrels don't lose health fast enough to warrant maxing them early.

At level 7 you can make an argument about maxing them since they do lose health fast enough, but you are only 2 levels away from Maxing Q so you miss from a possible spike in a character that has a very rough early game.

Max Q.