Talk:Gangplank/@comment-24.17.26.135-20110518200711/@comment-3067750-20110518210920

Non-Denyplanks were the minority actually.

A good deny plank with a good partner could devastate the enemy in their lane. On the first wave, a gangplank could kill off all 3 melee minions with enough cooldown (Note that in terms of gold and XP, Melee minions are only bested by Siege Minions, Caster Minions give the least gold and XP). Then afterwards, he could kill off a melee minion (or the Siege Minion, if present) each wave. This, over time, chops off a large amount of much needed early game experience for laning champions. The gangplank and his partner, could be level 6 while the enemy team are only level 4-5 even though they had gotten all the experience they could (having not once been harassed out of XP range) and are hurt even more by not having as much gold as the gangplank and hispartner.