Talk:Gangplank/@comment-79.175.91.211-20120915233546

To clarify some things.

Some people kept claiming that Gangplank would get buffs since he got a new skin. THEY ARE WRONG. No buffs were introduced in this patch.

Some people claim that old Gangplank was very strong. THEY ARE RIGHT. His passive dealt bigger magic damage over time and applied healing reduction, so basically you would make high regen champions cry (e.g. Riven, Garen and Mundo). His Raise Morale had 8/12/16/20/24 damage activating it grants Gangplank 14/18/22/26/30% movement speed and 20/28/36/44/52 damage. His Parrrley would give you 4/6/8/10/12 gold.

So yes, Gangplak was a terror in lane, pair this up with critical strike runes that could give you 20 % critical from level 1, + 6 or 7 from masteries + 8 on brawler glove. That was until Rumble patch I think, they nerfed gangplank then for the first time, it continued to Vayne and Yorick patch. They also changed masteries so you couldn't get crazy critical strike chances.

Gangplank is not that bad now, you can go solo top still but you are not presenting that much of a threat. I remmember when I started to actually play this game around Vayne patch when you fight against GP you had nightmares, crazy critical damage and crazy healing debuff that would ruind most of the top laners.

Some people started to write poems on GP's OPnes. THOSE ARE HILARIOUS :)