Talk:Gangplank/@comment-6000413-20130725133038/@comment-3546228-20130726031753

It's been around for a long time (more than 2 years, ever since Riot reworked him) but it's been mixed in success. On one hand he can bring a lot of utility with his E and global gank ultimate, and he scales really well in mid and late game (he can carry).

On the other hand his sustain is really weak unless you put ranks in it, thus neglecting your damage and clear speed, which is already pretty weak. It's actually his passive that lets him even clear camps.

His ganks are horrible until level 6. You just walk up to people, shoot and autoattack. It's pathetic. You will need all your lanes to have some sort of solid lockdown to make any gank really work (like or  ). If you have a team with no decent CC don't even bother picking Gangplank in general. He needs people to keep targets in his ultimate and he doesn't like to get focused too hard.