Talk:Gangplank/@comment-6701708-20160724165203/@comment-24496127-20160728063810

I don't understand why you keep talking about the fact that it's always been there as a justification when Gangplank was still relatively recently reworked. It's a lot of safe power that gives him free kills and assists in addition to his other ways of getting free gold, and it's not negligable on it's own either.

By definition the core of something is what defines it, what everything else is built around, something that you can't change without the entire thing basically being warped into something different. If somethings considered core to a champion by a majority of fans, people care about it. The word I would suggest is iconic, but his ultimate is only iconic because that's what he's had for so long, and saying something shouldn't change because it's old is a very weak argument for a number of reasons that if you'd really like to I will go into, but I'll assume it's not necessary.

Stop looking at just the ultimate, which on it's own is strong but not overbeating, and look at the character it's currently on. It was designed for someone who didn't really have much else going for him, and I really think that it's a big reason for Gangplank's continued strength, since it gives a huge amount of pressure to a character that becomes an almost broken hypercarry, with very little skill besides map awareness required.

@Einsoph It would take a magical ship to fire cannonballs as high as the map seems to be, and I have no clue how those cannons would possibly be contained to a perfect circle. Sure the balance was screwed, but at least it made some sense when it was randomly in the circle, stupid as it was for gameplay reasons.