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Champion Spotlight[]
Recommended Items[]
Tips[]
- Playing As
Gangplank
- Parrrley applies on hit effects like Sheen or Kleptomancy.
- Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
- Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
- Playing Against Gangplank
- Parrrley does a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
- Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Tricks[]
Ability Usage[]
- Detonate a barrel to gain a burst a movement speed.
- The damage over time component increases his duelling capacities, use it to stick to your target.
- It is Gangplank's core ability, it should be maxed out first. It is a ranged attack that applies on-hit effects and that can critically strike.
- It is used to last-hit minions in order to generate gold and Silver Serpents to upgrade Cannon Barrage.
- Early game, it is best to not only use Parrrley on minions, gold and Silver Serpents are less important than kill pressure.
- Early game, it is best to not only use Parrrley on minions, gold and
- Detonate a barrel with it to deal massive AoE damage.
- Use it against your opponent whenever you can to harass them and farm with your basic attacks.
- It makes it harder to farm, but now you are a lane bully and it's very difficult for the enemy to trade back if you consistently land your Parrrleys.
- One point in this ability is enough, the missing health component instantly heal you as much as a Total Biscuit of Everlasting Will. Be careful not to use this to often if you have lack mana regeneration, as the mana cost is pretty high, even at rank 1.
- Multiple Powder Kegs can be chained up to create an explosive chain of barrel. You can place one of them under the turret and another further away to harass your lane opponent from a fair distance away.
- Powder Keg, combined with Parrrley, can be a devastating farming tool to last-hit minions. If the splash damage last-hit the minions hit, it will grants the bonus gold and Silver Serpents from Parrrley for each minion killed.
- It can also be a game changing ability combined with a critically strike Parrrley against enemy champions. This is because Powder Keg ignores a part of the target's armor and deals bonus damage against enemy champions. The critically strike Parrrley will splash out the all enemies and apply the armor penetration and bonus damage from Powder Keg.
- While low on health, you can use your barrels defensively by placing them on top of you or a little behind, making it hard for your opponent to kill the barrels.
- It can be used to defend a turret sieged by minions.
- It can be used in teamfights where damage or crowd control is needed.
- It can also be used to gank another lane, giving you easy assists or kills if you are lucky.
- Thanks to the Silver Serpents earned with Parrrley, Gangplank has the option to upgrade Cannon Barrage with either Death's Daughter, Raise Morale or Fire at Will.
- Death's Daughter will deal more damage at the beginning of the ability, making the ability better at bursting down a target.
- Raise Morale will grant bonus movement speed to allies within the area. This is probably this worst upgrade, as Cannon Barrage should be used on enemies, and not on allies.
- However, if you use Raise Morale on a retreating enemy team, it can combine the slow and bonuse movement speed to make the chase much quicker and easier.
- Fire at Will will slightly increase the ability's total damage.
Rune Usage[]
- The perfect keystone for Gangplank is Kleptomancy. He is the best user for this rune because of how easy he can proc it and how often he can also. Kleptomancy synergizes perfectly with Gangplank because it triggers with Parrrley, giving him more gold and more sustain thanks to the potions looted.
- Biscuit Delivery gives him more lane sustain, and increases his maximum mana.
- Biscuits looted by Kleptomancy will also increase his maximum mana.
- Biscuits looted by
- Perfect Timing can increase your survivability to ganks by using the Stopwatch.
- The Stopwatch gives you a one-time Zhonya's Hourglass effect.
- The Stopwatch builds into a Guardian Angel which is a great item later on, for extra survivability and tankiness.
- The
- Magical Footwear gives you free boots at 10:00 that will build into Tier 2 boots at a reduced cost.
- Magical Footwear gives you the boots at 10:00, but it can get them quicker if you manage to get takedowns on enemy champions.
- Future's Market allows you to get into negative gold balance to buy any item, up to a gold limit.
- Use Future's Market to buy Trinity Force components earlier than usual.
- Use
- Cosmic Insight gives him much needed cooldown reduction.
- Time Warp Tonic gives you bonus movement speed and increased duration on potions and elixirs.
- Keep in mind, Time Warp Tonic works with Kleptomancy potions and elixirs, and also with Corrupting Potion and other potions and elixirs you may have.
- Keep in mind,
- Another great keystone that more and more people are taking recently on Gangplank is Grasp of the Undying.
- The reasoning why this keystone is so good on Gangplank is because Parrrley procs the keystone.
- Grasp of the Undying gives the full benefit to melee champions only, while ranged champions get all the benefits reduced by 40%.
- The reasoning why this keystone is so good on
- Conditioning, Bone Plating, or Chrysalis can be picked, based on preferences and on the matchup.
- Second Wind increases his lane sustain, and makes him more resilient in the long term.
- Transcendence gives him much needed cooldown reduction, and allows him to exceed the cap the gain more attack damage.
- Scorch will deal additional damage with Parrrley.
Item Usage[]
- The point of Gangplank is to do as much damage as possible with Parrrley + Powder Keg while still being a bit tanky.
- The key items that you want to build as soon as possible are: Sheen, Trinity Force, and Sterak's Gage.
- Trinity Force and Sterak's Gage will greatly increase the damage you deal with Parrrley.
- The best starting items for him are either:
- Corrupting Potion.
- Sapphire Crystal and Refillable Potion (or 3 Health Potions).
- Once you have Trinity Force, and Sterak's Gage consider buying items such as Youmuu's Ghostblade or Duskblade of Draktharr.
- Gangplank also works well with critical strike chance and damage, but will require at least two critical strike items to be really effective.
- Infinity Edge, Phantom Dancer and/or Statikk Shiv
- For tanks items, the following should be considered: Spirit Visage, Guardian Angel, and Adaptive Helm.
- As for boots Ninja Tabi are the best choice in the top lane. Mercury's Treads can be useful if the enemy team as a lot of crowd controls.
Countering[]
- Gangplank is going to try to farm most of the time, prevent that by playing aggressively.
- Gangplank's Powder Keg can be devastating for your team in teamfights, always try to last hit his barrels in order to disarm them.