He has a relatively safe laning phase thanks to his Q, oranges, and barrels, a global AoE ultimate, scales well, and is a good blind pick. I could definitely see him replacing Rumble now that Rumble has been nerfed multiple times.

Make the barrel slow stack.... I think this would make him more competitive and better

Legend haste or Legend alacrity? And why?

Bro its so good im not even kidding, it takes out a lot of precision of knowing where the max e range is you can just focus on the Q E timing, if ur chasing its so low cortisol, please tell me if any of you use this its so cool.

Whats the best build to learn GP nowadays? Bruiser or the crit default? Also, tips of how to play laning phase are wanted.

I'm basically a noob compared many here, Gold 1 this season, 20 LP away from plat.

I have the early game at my elo mostly down and more often than not have a strong lead around level 6 with 1-2 kills up on the lane opponent.

What I struggle with is carrying this lead into a winning game. I don't know how to properly help other lanes or prevent my teammates from falling behind.

This usually leads to 20 minutes of random bullshit until everyone is level 18 and we lose the game on a dumb coin flip fight or just because the enemy team has the late-game comp.

Do you have any good guides or strategies you use to finish the game while you still have a lead?

Was playing toplane and went against an Azir, perma shoved and poked with a non existent jungler. He can disarm barrels outside the danger zone and has an almost instant AA. How to lane aganst this FREAK?

Is it ever a good reson not to level ult so you can get max barrels faster?

https://imgur.com/a/hy1PimI

Last time I'm posting this, I swear. Someone pointed out dominik's doesn't work on dummies, so where it says Dom, what I did was buy Grudge and a crit item that wouldn't affect damage. But it's the damage you can expect from dom with no bonus HP.

Now dominik's isn't skewing the data.

Conclusions:

• Of the 75% crit options, the normal ER+Coll+Dom build is most gold efficient.
• The cheapest option, Reaver+Volt+Collector, is around median for guaranteed damage. So if you need a game to end fast because you're against a better scaler or losing, this may be the play.
• Triforce+Muramana+Dom has the highest base guaranteed damage, but low chance to crit and needs to stack.
• And if you wanna gamble more, Triforce+Volt+Dom has the highest possible damage, but low crit chance. Good choice for mayhem modes.

That should do it. If more adjustment is needed, I'll edit this post.

Hello, I wanted to start learning Gangplank after watching some Solarbacca videos and seeing the crits, which are insane. I've been playing him recently, around 5 matches, and I am finding his laning phase extremely difficult, especially against ranged tops. I'm pretty new to the game, level 28, but I'm willing to put the work in to learn GP. What do ya'll recommend for practice? How to place the barrels and not waste them? Combos and stuff. Let me know; anything is helpful at this point. Thank you.

I've one-tricked Gangplank because I love this champ and climbed all the way to Plat/Emerald, and now I am stuck in a ditch

GP doesn't feel rewarding anymore. As now all I am going against are champs like renekton, jax, morde, sett, Gwen. All of them gets to make 20 mistakes while GP has to play nearly perfectly just to go even.

The risk-to-reward ratio on Gangplank is completely backwards.

One missed barrel and your entire trade is gone.

One mistake against Jax, Mordekaiser, Gwen, Sett, Camille, or Irelia and your lane is basically over.

Meanwhile they can misplay three fights in a row, hit one item spike, and suddenly they're stronger than you despite requiring a fraction of the execution.

People always post clips of Solarbacca deleting five people with one barrel.

What they don't show are the ten games where a Gangplank spends 25 minutes farming just to get one-shot by the enemy assassin because he missed a barrel.

If a champion requires near-perfect mechanics just to perform at the same level as meta picks like Camille, Gwen, or Ambessa, is the champion actually strong... or are the players carrying the champion?

I think Gangplank is balanced around the top 0.01% of players, which makes him mediocre for almost everyone else, even in high elo.

Change my mind.

All we need now is the old voiceover and its k

How to deal with this? Even at just lost chapter it feels unplayble because his Q deals like 300 damage. After he completes Malignance he just presses R on you off ccooldown until grouping and at that point I feel like I can't do anything

Which top lane champion are you happiest to see when you lock in Gangplank?

I'm mainly looking for matchups where GP can comfortably control the lane or scale without too much pressure.

Recently announced he will be part of next set Vendetta, release 31st of July. His base and overnumber (very rare) alternative art. It's funny how he just eat orange runes for his effect.

Has anyone pulled this off in game? It's possible to ghost combo with the first barrel in your Q range if you flash out of Q range during the channel of the Q, then place the second barrel during the flight of the bullet.

Also wondered if the combo has a name. I propose "Ghost Lite".

I really love gangplank and I one trick him, but I find that when gangplank get's banned in ranked, I am completely helpless as I don't know how to play anything else well. I literally got into top lane just because of gangplank. I want to find an alternative champion to play that is actually fun, that I can use when gp is not available. I really enjoy oppressive lane bullies. Do you fellow gp mains have any recommendations?

Hello! I am learning the pirate way, and I have looked into learning about phantom barreling, and I understand his Q has to be outside of the barrel range, however whenever I try and place the 2nd barrel when the first is exploding, GP will take another step which makes it so it doesn't place quick enough, or he just won't place it even though it shows that it's in his range. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if it might be a setting issue or if I'm misunderstanding phantom barrels

I turned Gangplank into an E7 hero.

Picked up Gangplank this season after finding myself bored with bruisers/singed. Immediately dropped from EME1 to EME4, but he was so fun to learn that i stuck with it and managed to climb all the way back up again. God i LOVE this champion