Talk:Gangplank/@comment-26151194-20150831172714/@comment-26459891-20150831174328

As of his rework, Q's base damage cannot crit anymore, and it's just applied on top of the regular crit damage. (This however is the regular behaviour of this kind of spells -- the base damage of Nasus's Q used to crit as well, but it was changed long time ago.)

So yea, Q by itself now crits for less, but Powder Kegs more than make up for the loss of that extra damage. That, and it could also be that you don't build Statikk Shiv on him anymore (and if you do, don't do that), since I believe that counted towards end game total critical damage.