User blog comment:Wow look i made a rework/Poison is for ninja not pirates (Gangplank rework)/@comment-6003864-20140206163621

Despite Riot's notoriously short attention span, I doubt that anyone in or out of the company has forgotten that Draven's passive is THIS plus more fun. Making it that easy to gain stacks is not good practice for a game company, and it removes the essence of counterplay. Draven's enemies have a way of denying stacks to Draven while Draven's passive fits well with his lore and design. GP's current gold stacking from parrley and the inevitable avarice blade is sufficient to ensure he has enough gold. Also, lore-wise Grog is generally considered poison (try drinking that stuff for years and then tell me it isn't killing you). And Pirates (while not a fan of being sneaky) love grog. And love making their enemies feel pain. Which dirty grog in open wounds will certainly do.