Talk:Gangplank/@comment-25038920-20140611153448/@comment-5955640-20140611173302

Not a very good one. Raise Morale has good bonuses but it's cooldown is long and it's up for 7 seconds. Remove Scurvy only helps yourself. Maybe if you were clever you could help get the enemy to blow their spells and heal it off but AP or Sustain Gangplank makes that safe and again. CDR is a little too long and other supports have much shorter harass spell cooldowns.

It will be too unsafe to use Grog Soaked blade most of the time. Parrley is very strong as it's a low cooldown and out ranges most Marksman's auto attack range. Two support items serve you pretty well in this instance. Spell thief and it's evolutions will reward you for harassing with Q. Using it only on the enemy champions and will give you gold to make up for not last hitting minions. Relic and it's evolutions will reward you for last hitting minions with the gold and mana. You also get the gold from the relic and the heal it gives you and your marksman.

So generally speaking you could use either one to decide how you want to support. Relic for sustain. Spell Thief for harass. I'd honestly go for Relic but it all depends. The ult is probably where things come together. The large AOE pretty much holds down parts of the lane and even with a dash most marksmen won't be able to escape. If they have no dash it's even better. They might flash away though but your ult's Cooldown is shorter than Flash so that's fine to force a flash for the success of the next ult.

AP Gangplank gets damage out of the ult but there's no real control over how the canonballs hit the targeted area and that's the only time it does damage. Against tankier supports he provides better sustain and harass than them. Against harass supports he only provides sustain. And against sustain supports he provides more harass.