Talk:Gangplank/@comment-26331429-20151018201340/@comment-5955640-20151019192731

What game were you playing? AD crit gangplank was the only one that did damage! I would cross my fingers and hope that by 45 minutes Crit Gangplank would arrive and we'd actually have a 5v5 setup. It was the only Gangplank that could carry and if you didn't have that you basically lost unless someone else was carrying Gangplank.

All the other Gangplank builds took just as long to come around to full build but they had so much less to show for it.

The newer Gangplank does need his items but again, as I've mentioned. Farming is much easier and you can buy upgrades for your ult and your standard items as seperate purchases.

Gangplank's Q is not like the empowered auto attacks of those other champs.

Crippling Strike is used to slow the opponent down so you can apply more stacks for the bleed or just finish them off with his ult. Darius' entire kit is built around grabbing you and abusing you while you are helpless to escape his wrath.

Decisive Strike is Garen's way of pushing the offensive on his target. But aside from that Garen is just about being indomitable.

Crushing Blow Reduces the targets armor which for the most part is most effective on enemy tanks who are stacking it but in general Wukong's greatest strength is just ulting in the middle of a teamfight and getting away with his Decoy.

Omen of War summons a ghost to continue the harass of the opponent and the rest of Yorick's kit is just annoying people with his ghosts so it's no better than any of his spells (Bad).

All Jax does is gain bonus basic attack damage and he even gets the rather exclusive bonus of gaining full spell vamp from Empower and Grandmaster's Might.

Those guys don't live around their empowered auto attacks and they only have one use for them. To hit people so as to allow the rest of their kit to do the actual work.

Gangplank uses his Q for poke, he uses it for farm, he uses it to trigger his barrels at a good distance so they can deal safe and impressive damage, and he uses his Q to nuke squishy targets when he's gotten his Infinity Edge.

Gangplank has so much more mileage out of his empowered auto attacks than really anyone else. Only Ezreal comes close who is the one champ you didn't mention despite their essential need to use their Qs as often as possible.

None of this dissuades from the main point that old Gangplank was bad and this new Gangplank is better and you are wrong for thinking otherwise.