Captain Gangplank's Revenge A guide by link491
Credits Vengenator, for helping me rework this guide from the ground up by providing many hand done images, as well as this awesome guide layout! Seriously, this dude makes some of the prettiest layouts I've seen, and he runs an awesome Brand Guide to boot. Go check his stuff out, trust me it'll be well worth your time. There, you have your credit. Happy now? MinnitMann, massive thanks for looking over my guide and giving all sorts of advice for how to improve it. This guy is the top Gangplank player on the NA server, and he has all kinds of useful tips on his AMA thread on reddit, found here, as well as his guide which is found here. Luganchan, for information on junglers and assistance on theory for countering certain opponents. Haksause, for teaching me how to play my favorite champion, all the way back in the beginning of season 1.
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Overview

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So, why would you want to play gangplank, you might ask. Well, do you mean aside from him having the best laugh and the best taunt in the game? Not to mention the best skins? Oh that's right, you'll also get to be a freaking pirate! Not enough? Alright, well recently Gangplank got a rework, and he's pretty fun now. Follow this guide and I, link491, will show you the path of piracy success with Gangplank.

Firstly, the sheer power and DAMAGE than you can unleash is just silly at times. The combination of free true damage on basic attacks, huge critical strikes and overall a kit that lets you be extremely slippery, and your opponents are going to have a pretty hard time dealing with you as you melt their squishies and proceed to spam laugh, which you should obviously have bound to clicking your mouse scroll wheel.

On the downside, of course, pertains the danger of recklessly sailing the seven seas without a map. Being alone and stranded in the vast and dangerous jungle can quickly lead to your downfall should rival pirates and jealous corporate bosses come to hunt your glorious booty. Stay behind your ADC tank so they don't focus you!

So, I've been a Gangplank main since around halfway through Season 1. I remember the day when my friend came over, at the time I was saving up for some other less interesting champion (*cough* Mordekaiser*cough*), but my friend decided to go on my account and buy Gangplank. After around an hour of him teaching me what to build (at the time it was Heart of Gold into Atma's Impaler and Warmog's Armor, and how to play him, I had discovered my favorite champion. Flash forward to season 5, and Gangplank's still my favorite champion. Sure he's had changes, most recently for the better, but he's still every bit as badass as he was back then. Now then, I've had a bit of a ramble so it seems it's time to move onward to the guide!

Pros		Cons
The Deftest Skirmisher Parrrley has good range and procs Trinity Force passive, allowing you to deftly quickscope the enemy noob and run away before you have to face the wrath of semi-organized retaliation. Legendary Banker Gangplank's natural build path and kit rakes in tons of money. Parrrley and Avarice Blade in conjunction helps fuel your expensive build path so you can deal tons of damage. Oranges! Here's a strong healthy pirate that ain't got scurvy! Disregard cc and debuff effects by simply using Remove Scurvy. This gets rid of almost every single debuff in the game, which proves to be incredibly useful and is basically a Quicksilver Sash on a shorter cooldown with heals. Global Presence Cannon Barrage as a global ability is the perfect tool for you to help your teammates set up engages and win some tax money from it! The slow is quite useful and the damage is not to be undermined. If an enemy is under 200 health it may be possible to finish them off with a well aimed Cannon Barrage		Glass Sculpting A full damage build path offers little in terms of survival and in addition Gangplank has no natural tank properties, so you'll have to bolt should rival pirates set their beady little eyes upon you. A Captain Never Runs! Gangplank has no real escape mechanisms, and this can really hurt him when playing against champions that have large amounts of mobility ( Riven, Renekton, Wukong, etc.) Too Heavy Gangplank is NOT a solo carry no matter how to look at it. Despite the fact that he can deal excellent damage he can't trade very well and does not have sustained damage. His greatest strengths are poking and team fighting, where he shines as a high damage almost support-style champion. Relies on a Good Crew While Gangplank can deal a lot of damage in a short amount of time, he is very team reliant as he can only really blow up one, maybe two champions easily. Skirmishes and team fights are where Gangplank is going to be the most useful.

Trial by Fire
	Overall a pretty good passive. The strategy with this is simple: Farm up while it's down, and when it's up go and smack your opponent. Killing a Powder Keg will reignite this, so you can use those to deal really nice harass damage over a short period.
Ability Details Basic Information Additional Information Every 15 seconds, Gangplank's next melee attack ignites the target, dealing 20 + (10 x level) (+ 100% bonus AD) bonus true damage over 2.5 seconds and granting 30% Movement Speed for 2 seconds. Destroying a Powder Keg refreshes Trial by Fire and grants him the Movement Speed. Parrrley does not activate Trial by Fire. Trial By Fire is a passive ability that grants Gangplank an on-hit effect. It is not applied by Parrrley. Banshee's Veil Spell shields will not trigger.
Parrrley
	Parrrley is your first damage source and is certainly one of my favorite skills. It provides good ranged harass, and procs anything that your basic attacks can. It also gives you bonus gold whenever you kill a minion, as well as the currency that you're going to need later on to upgrade your Cannon Barrage. In lane, you're going to want to try to use this skill to farm as much as possible, the only time you should be using it otherwise is to kill a Powder Keg or to harass the enemy if they act stupid and get too close. We max this first so that we can maximize our gold potential as well as earn as much as we can so we can upgrade Cannon Barrage as early as possible.
Ability Details Basic Information Additional Information RANGE: 625 COST: 40 MANA COOLDOWN: 5 PHYSICAL DAMAGE: 20 / 45 / 70 / 95 / 120 (+ 100% AD) EXTRA GOLD: 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 SILVER SERPENTS: 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 Parrrley applies on-hit effects, on-attack effects, life steal and fully critically strike. It behaves like a melee auto attack Parrrley can be affected by on-being hit effects coming from champions and items. Frozen Mallet and Iceborn Gauntlet will apply the strongest melee version of their slows. Phage and Trinity Force will trigger the strongest melee version of the movement speed bonus. Tiamat's and Ravenous Hydra's splash damage will trigger, but Parrrley will not interact in any way with Runaan's Hurricane's passive. Every unit killed by Tiamat's or Ravenous Hydra's splash damage or the procs from Statikk Shiv and Iceborn Gauntlet will grant Parrrley's bonus gold and silver serpents. Parrrley can be blocked, dodged or parried, as it is considered a basic attack. Banshee's Veil Spell shields will block the ability. This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall. Parrrley resets Gangplank's autoattack timer. ACTIVE: Gangplank fires his pistol at his target, dealing damage and applying on-hit effects. If Parrrley kills a unit, the shot plunders bonus gold. For each Gold plundered, Gangplank gains a Silver Serpent that he can use at the shop to upgrade Cannon Barrage.
Remove Scurvy
	We don't like to be bogged down by scurvy, so we always take our daily vitamin c! Remove Scurvy is the ability that Gangplank is probably best known for, and it provides massive sustain to boot. The power to nullify any cc makes it incredibility difficult for the enemy team to lock you down. The mana costs of this ability can get pretty hefty at later levels, so we only grab a point or two in this early, as that will provide more than enough sustain until late game.
Ability Details Basic Information Additional Information COST: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 MANA COOLDOWN: 22 / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 HEAL: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 (+0.9 AP) + 15% of missing health Remove Scurvy does not remove Ignite, the damage reduction from Exhaust (it removes the slow though), any 'airborne' crowd control effects (pulls, knock-backs and knock-ups) or Malefic Visions. Remove Scurvy is one of the few abilities that can remove suppression. Remove Scurvy can cleanse Yasuo's final breath because the damage works almost like a suppress. The suppression from Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser will be removed, but if the channel completes both champions will still be moved. The suppression from Nether Grasp, Impale, and Infinite Duress will be removed, however Malzahar's ultimate will continue dealing damage unless you move out of the tether range or the channel is disrupted. ACTIVE: Gangplank consumes a large quantity of citrus fruit, curing all disabling effects and healing him based on his missing health.
Powder Keg
	This is your second form of damage, as well as your main method of wave clear. Essentially you're going to want to drop one of these down on the back line of minions and then hit it with a Parrrley to clear out the wave with sheen. The timer on these things is pretty slow until level 7 though, so aside from an early point in them at level 2, we're not going to be upgrading these much until after we've maxed Parrrley.
Ability Details Basic Information Information/Strategy RANGE: 1000 COST: FREE SLOW AMOUNT: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80% RECHARGE: 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 sec Powder Keg damage doesn't stack (so avoid mindlessly dumping them on top of eachother). If you detonate a Powder Keg with Q and the explosion kills multiple minions you'll get the Parrrley bonus for each minion killed. Use this mechanic to help farm Silver Serpents for your ultimate. If you chain barrels, the on-hit effects ( Statikk Shiv, Ravenous Hydra, etc.) will only proc on the barrel you hit. These work great as a method of kiting, especially when combined with items such as Trinity Force or Iceborn Gauntlet, as the barrels will proc the items' full passives. Because of this, you're always going to want to try to keep around 2 up. Remember to drop your Powder Kegs first in duels to get them ticking during the fight. Drop a Keg close to GP inside the enemy melee creeps and wait for it to tick down. During the fight you can kill off the barrels to reignite your passive and deal more damage. You can drop a Powder Keg in front of you, and when you get in melee attack range, hit it to ignite your passive and get a movement speed buff on your way out of fountain. ACTIVE:Place a Powder Keg that can be attacked by Gangplank or his enemies at target location for 60 seconds. If Gangplank destroys a keg, it explodes dealing the attack's damage as phyiscal damage (ignores 40% armor) and slowing them for 2 seconds. Champions take 60/90/120/150/180 bonus physical damage from the explosion. When a keg explodes, other kegs with overlapping blast zones chain explode (damage does not stack) Kegs health decays every 2.0 seconds. (Decay rate increases at 7 and 13) Keg explosions apply Parrley's plunder effect.
Cannon Barrage
	Probably the most under-rated ultimate in the game. It provides a global slow in a large area, as well as tons of utility. You can go three ways with this skill, either you're going to provide a large burst of damage by purchasing Death's Daughter, more damage over time from Fire at Will or big utility in teamfights with Raise Morale.
Ability Details Basic Information Additional Information RANGE: Global COST: 100 MANA SLOW: 30% COOLDOWN: 160 / 150 / 140 MAGIC DAMAGE PER SECOND: 50 / 70 / 90 (+0.10 AP) MAX MAGIC DAMAGE BEFORE UPGRADE: 600 / 840 / 1080 (+ 120% AP) MAX MAGIC DAMAGE WITH Fire At Will: 900 / 1260 / 1620 (+ 180% AP) Cannon Barrage is a global ground targeted area of effect ability. Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability. Hextech Revolver's spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness. Rylai's Crystal Scepter will apply a 15% slow. Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields. Banshee's Veil will block the damage of one cannonball. Cannon Barrage grants vision of the targeted area to Gangplank's team for the duration. Slows will linger for 0.25 seconds after leaving the marked area. Cannon Barrage will activate the damage from Thunderlord's Decree during the first wave if the mastery isn't on cooldown. This is a great way to execute people as the burst damage is rather high. ACTIVE: Gangplank signals his ship to fire a cannonball barrage upon a target 600-radius area for 7 seconds, dealing damage every second; granting vision of the area; and slowing enemies inside it by 25%.

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Runes

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Masteries

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Recommended Summoner Spells

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Teleport provides you with lots of utility, it will let you set up ganks, split push, and make all sorts of other interesting plays. Teleport stays relevant through the entire game, and I would say that its power is at the very least on par with flash.

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Alternatives

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Early, Mid, and Lategame

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Early Game

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You're going to want to spend your laning phase doing a few things. Firstly you should prioritize last-hitting everything you can with Parrrley. This will let you rack up a sizable gold advantage, as well as the Silver Serpents that you'll need to upgrade Cannon Barrage later on. While you're last hitting, do yourself a favor and drop a few Powder Keg down when it suits you. The best places to place them are generally in places that the enemy is going to need to go or in places where you can use them to clear large groups of minions. If you Parrrley a barrel and it kills something, it will give you the bonus gold, so you should use this to your advantage to rack up even more gold.

Try to stay out of the enemy's range at all times, farming and harassing with Powder Keg where needed until the enemy either dies or has to recall. If they recall before you, push out the lane and recall yourself. One thing that I can not stress enough is to make sure that you are always moving. This makes dodging skill shots and avoiding ganks much easier. It also can be quite off-putting for the enemy, as it forces them to really focus on aiming their abilities, and creates a higher possibility of them missing a skill or click.

Once you hit 6, you've come to the point in the game that you become a massive asset to the other lanes. Start watching the other lanes, and see if they are able to engage for a kill. If they can, ping and drop an ult on the enemy to slow them, hopefully netting your allies a kill and you an assist. This works the best when you work with the jungler to set up mega ganks that are pretty much impossible to escape from.
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Mid-Late Game

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Once you hit mid game you should begin roaming. Help out any lanes that may be having trouble, and make sure you participate in skirmishes. When you're in a fight, drop a Powder Keg in the center of it, and use Parrrley to detonate it, dealing damage to all your enemies and slowing them. Harass the squishies with Parrrley and use your passive to hit anybody that gets near you and get out of their range as fast as you can. Remove Scurvy will sustain you if you get low.

Moving into late game, you can pretty much just do what you want cause a pirate is free! You can just run around the map, pushing turrets quickly and melting anything that comes near you with less than 150 armor. In team fights you should be hitting whoever's near you, while using Parrrley to establish dominance over their ADC and using your Powder Kegs to slow the enemy while dealing significant amounts of splash damage. What you're going to want to do when placing the barrels is drop one in a safe position near you, and then drop the second one near whoever you're trying to deal damage to, then you can smack the barrel that's close to you in order to deal more damage from a safe distance. Once fights are ending, you can use Cannon Barrage or Powder Keg to pick off any stragglers or to help your team escape if things didn't go your way.


Barrel Mechanics

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Farming

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Drop a Powder Keg near you first so that you can protect it while it ticks down, since the ticking rate at early levels is pretty slow. Once it's at one hit point, you can drop a second one connecting to it and hit it with a parley to detonate both barrels. This will deal the AOE damage from Parrrley, as well as the bonus damage from the barrels themselves providing really nice wave clear if you use it when the minions are at around half health or less. This will let you rack up Silver Serpents rather quickly, since the gold you get from parley is applied when you hit a barrel with it.
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Harassing

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Harassing is going to change based on your enemy. Most of the time you're going to be playing against a melee, so you can do the same thing you did when farming to get more or less instant damage. Drop the first barrel where it's safe, then detonate the second when you want to. You should try to harass when the enemy goes to farm if you plan to use this method, so you can double the barrel value by dealing damage to the enemy as well as using it to kill a few minions at the same time. Keep in mind that it's not a good idea to spam barrels too much though, since you want to always have one available to you to get out of stick situations. Note that Powder Keg will not proc Bandit , so I would recommend prioritizing harassing the enemy with Parrrley if you can. This way you will get to abuse Bandit from a far range effectively netting you free gold.
Now then, ranged opponent, or one with a lot of mobility ( Riven, etc.) is where things are going to get complicated. Firstly, you should freeze the lane. This will let you place the first barrel with no fear of them being able to get to it. When you go to harass or clear a wave now you're going to have to be very fast. Drop the barrel on the enemy, and right as it lands Parrrley the first one. If done correctly, you should be able to deal the harass damage even if the enemy uses a dash to escape.
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Kiting

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Kiting is relatively different from harassing and farming. For one thing, you're only going to need one barrel, and you can only really do it easily once you're level 7 or higher, since that's when the barrel tick down timer gets reduced. When being chased, drop a barrel in front of you at max range, then wait for the enemy to come near. When they get in range for the barrel to deal damage, Parrrley it for big damage, a slow and a movement speed boost. This should give you ample opportunity to escape anybody that's chasing you.
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Pushing

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When pushing, you can use Powder Keg to deal massive damage to the turret in a short amount of time. Drop a barrel whenever Trial By Fire is down and hit that barrel to bring it back up. When you hit the turret it will expend your passive and deal true damage. Rinse and repeat to take turrets quickly.


Itemization

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Our core items are as simple as they come. Trinity Force massively increases our overall damage output and will let your Powder Keg one-shot back line minions if you choose to return to lane after getting this. Ionian Boots of Lucidity give you more cooldown reduction on your abilities and summoner spells, and Caulfield's Warhammer will let you max out your cooldown reduction while building into either Youmuu's Ghostblade or Death's Dance.
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Your last three items are completely situational. This versatility is what makes Gangplank such an interesting champion. He can literally benefit from anything you want to buy. Need another tank? Grab some resistances and still blow up squishies. Need to deal with some tanks? Grab some armor penetration and proceed to blow them up with the squishies. Is your adc feeding? Great! You can go full damage and become the new carry! Overall this versatility will let you fill many different roles, which makes Gangplank a champion that will fit into any team comp regardless of who's in it.

If you're looking for a good default for last items, I would recommend grabbing a Youmuu's Ghostblade, a Lord Dominik's Regards and an Infinity Edge so that you can run around the map screaming into all chat "YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS AS THE DAY THAT YOU ALMOST CAUGHT CAPTAIN GANGPLANK!"
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Right then, now that we have a good idea of what all of our abilities do and what we should be building, it's time we talked about Cannon Barrage.

First let's talk about Fire At Will. Fire At Will is in my opinion the best of the three upgrades that are available to us. It adds 6 additional waves to the ult, which will massively increase our damage and since cannons slow on an individual basis now, once you have this you're pretty much guaranteed to deal at least 250 damage, most of the time far more than that. The only real downside to this upgrade is that it doesn't maximize your damage potential if you get it first, and so it probably better to grab second or third (if the game goes that long).

Now, Death's Daughter is your mid game bread and butter. A bunch of true damage that can hit multiple people? Yes please! The burst that this provides can be such a game changing amount that it would be ludicrous to not buy this as soon as you possibly can. Once you have it you will be able to turn the tide of a team fight with just this ability simply from landing the true damage portion of your ult. One thing to keep in mind is that the radius of the large cannon ball is about half that of the entire ult field, and is positioned in the center, so you're going to need to predict the enemy's movement a little bit so that you can land it.

Finally we come to Raise Morale. Now this is the utility upgrade, but it's nowhere near as powerful as the other two, so you're not going to get it until you've got the other two first. Essentially grabbing this will make escape impossible for the enemy without burning flash or some escape ability, and even then it's going to be difficult. Raise Morale is great for chasing and disengaging, but honestly it's not good enough to grab above the other upgrades most of the time. You'd be better off grabbing Death's Daughter above this unless your team is the most immobile team ever.

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Thanks

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Alright to start with, thanks so much to all of you for looking at my guide and up-voting it. I owe the guide's success to you.

Feedback

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I always like to hear from readers about their thoughts on my guide, ways I could improve, etc. So please, don't hesitate to leave comments about anything relevant! Questions can be dropped in the comments as well, or if you want to you can send me a PM with your questions. If you do notice any typos or mistakes, please don't hesitate to let me know, I do give +reps.
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Changelog August 3, 2016: Added Duskblade of Draktharr to the last items so you guys stop asking me about it :D July 24, 2016: Fixed a couple of lane matchups. July 13, 2016: Update for 6.14. July 5, 2016: Slightly changed masteries descriptions, fixed some incorrect items in build. July 2, 2016: Updated guide for patch 6.13. Updated all runes to better explain choices as well as provide alternatives. Updated Items a bit to better gear users towards what they should be building. June 5, 2016: Updated guide for Patch 6.11 May 26, 2016: Updated some matchups to reflect changes to champions. May 19, 2016: Patch 6.10 Update. May 4, 2016: Patch 6.9 update. Updated item sets to coincide with changes. Lane opponents changes will come over time as I have the chance to play against them all. April 21, 2016: Updated all runes, masteries and items. April 16, 2016: Updated ult upgrades section. March 2, 2016: Added Volibear matchup. February 29, 2016: Small changes to the example final build. February 25, 2016: Updated example final build, removed Youmuu's Ghostblade from items, added Sterak's Gage to items. February 24, 2016: Updated ability values for patch 6.4. Added Quinn to the matchup section. February 10, 2016: Small update to core items to be cleaner. Updates on new item coming in time. February 6, 2016: Updated core items. February 2, 2016: Updated some lane matchups, added Illaoi matchup. Updated Item build. January 28, 2016: Fixed typos, updated for 6.2. January 14, 2016: Updated initial guide information for patch 6.1. More changes may be coming in the future! January 11, 2016: Updated Dr. Mundo matchup! January 2, 2016: Bugger off 2015! Added upgrades for Cannon Barrage to items, since they've finally been implemented. December 27, 2015: Fixed a mistake in the items. December 24, 2015: Small update to masteries description to clarify my thoughts. December 22, 2015: Updated runes and masteries to better reflect the sheer stupid that is Thunderlord's Decree . December 3, 2015: Updated tags for new patch. Expect a bigger update in a few weeks if/when the nerfs that are sitting on the PBE go live. November 12, 2015: Updated mastery images so they look prettier. November 11, 2015: Patch 5.22 released! Items and masteries reworked to reflect this! Enjoy guys :) November 7, 2015: Updated title since the rework isn't that new anymore, now it says the patch value instead. Began prepping for 5.22 October 26, 2015: Updated guide for 5.21 (lets hope this is the last batch of nerfs) October 2, 2015: Updated items and descriptions to better reflect what I currently build. Also added another Jack Sparrow reference, since you can never have enough of those :P September 30, 2015: Added Akali to matchups. September 14, 2015: GP Nerfs Ahoy! Updated for 5.18 September 2, 2015: Updated for patch 5.17. September 1, 2015: Fixed a bit of lazy coding. August 29, 2015: Added Shen matchup. August 23, 2015: Added a section on upgrading Cannon Barrage! It can be found at the end of the Items Section. Cleaned up a bit of dirty formatting, updated guide for the latest patch. August 18, 2015: Updated Fiora's match information. August 16, 2015: Added Dead Man's Plate to items, now that it's finally been added to the Mobafire Database. Removed Last Whisper, added Banshee's Veil. Guide is now more or less ready for 5.16 August 10, 2015: Added Sion Matchup August 7, 2015: Updated the champion matchups that I have data to update. Now that section should better reflect GP's strengths and weaknesses. August 5, 2015: Updated the introduction section images, nothing special just cosmetic. Added section for Barrel Mechanics! Enjoy :) August 1, 2015: Made front page! Also they killed the captain. I'm betting on him returning before Jon Snow does. Also added Ravenous Hydra to the later game items. July 23, 2015: Small design tweaks, as well as fixes for typos and items. Coming soon: Barrel Mechanics! July 22, 2015: Gangplank rework is live!!! Made some small updates to items and all of that stuff. Expect more updates when mobafire updates their database! July 21, 2015: Made changes to the luxury items and example build to suit further testing. Improved skill order, as well as fixed a few small visual bugs. July 20, 2015: Small updates to information regarding Powder Keg. Changed Greed icons to Remove Scurvy. Decided to release the guide early as I'll be on vacation soon, have fun guys :) July 15, 2015: Completed guide overhaul. July 9, 2015: Unarchived guide as the reworking of it is coming along quickly. Expect it to be published on release day of the GP Rework July 7, 2015: Archived guide and began process of reworking it to be ready for the Gangplank rework that is coming soon. July 4, 2015: Updated tags, slowly writing on the changes that came with runeglaive, Updated Wukong section. Slightly reworked the information in the item build path section, as I would recommend getting Infinity Edge earlier. Team role changed to other. June 21, 2015: Added Black Cleaver to the alternative items list. More updates will come when exams end. May 21, 2015: Small update to laning phase. Might be rewriting the entire section over the weekend. Haven't decided yet. May 19, 2015: Mastery changes coming next patch! Be ready for an update! Fixed a few typos and errors in the guide. Nothing major but there should be no more fragments, so that's a thing. May 14, 2015: Updated tag for patch 5.9, made a few small changes to the guide content. Currently testing Black Cleaver as an alternative health item. Expect my thoughts on that to come soon. May 13, 2015: Small updates. May 1, 2015: Small rewriting of some text to enhance clarity. April 16, 2015: Small update to fix a few typos. Expect a bigger update over the weekend when I have time. March 26, 2015: Slight change to runes and masteries so they're the same as what I currently play with. Keep in mind, that these are always going to be tentative because of the way Gangplank as a champion operates. March 21, 2015: Completely overhauled spells section. Removed Heal and Ghost, as they're redundant, updated information on the 4 remaining. The design is now prettier to look at and overall works better with the overall look of the guide. Also changed the order of things slightly, since I felt it was off a bit. Finally, started updating overall font size consistency of the guide. March 20, 2015: Updated pros and cons March 16, 2015: Small update to runes and masteries on the cheat sheet. March 14, 2015: March break's here! All my friends are gone for the week and since I'm stuck at home I decided to update the masteries section. It is now more appealing to look at as well as no longer telling you how exactly to set up a page, since lets be honest; Gangplank can pretty much use any type of masteries and they'll work. February 25, 2015: Renamed Laning section to Gameplay section, since it contains information for all points of the game. Also explains teamfighting in far greater depth now. February 20, 2015: Fixed a few typos February 19, 2015: Completely overhauled the runes section. Now rather than recommending my one personal preference, I go over many different options and provide the benefits of each. February 17, 2015: Completely Overhauled matchup sections. They now take up far less space and in my humble opinion look much nicer. Reworked some aspects of the laning section. February 14, 2015: Updated Items section. February 8, 2015: Fixed rune section January 30, 2015: Removed Warmog's Armor from situational items. January 13, 2015: Slightly tweaked Jayce matchup. December 23, 2014: Added Muramana to situational items. Try it out, it can be bonkers. December 9, 2014: Completely re-wrote and re-coded the items section. Things should be more appealing and less wall-like now. Revamped build at the top of the guide, hopefully for good this time. It now provides some alternatives to my default build. Situational items can no longer be seen at the top of the page, as they took up too much space, now you will just see them in the appropriately named "Situational Items" section :P December 8, 2014: Small update to runes, currently going through tests of the new items that came with the 4.20 patch. Expect a larger update over the Christmas holidays. November 19, 2014: Small update to skill order to maximize your uses in team fights. November 14, 2014: Updated items section, to better explain my position on Trinity Force vs. Iceborn Gauntlet. November 12, 2014: Changed recommended summoner spells based on how I currently play. Exhaust is now recommended for laning :D November 7, 2014: Tweaked masteries slightly to allow for the possibility of attaining a full 40% cdr, as opposed to 38.75% October 26, 2014: Updated Yasuo matchup. October 17, 2014: Updated information on Cannon Barrage, as i forgot to when i made the last update. October 16, 2014: Removed Mercurial Scimitar, Maw of Malmortius and Essence Reaver, as they are all so situational, and when they would be needed, they are outclassed by Banshee's Veil or other situational items. Added Ionian Boots of Lucidity to situational items. Updated Malphite matchup. Updated alternate masteries. Tweaked all champion ratings so that the graph thing syncs up with the more detailed matchup section. October 1, 2014: Added all lane matchups to the Strong/Weak against sections that mobafire has so nicely added to their system (the matchups sections are still there for more detailed information, but I may be removing them at a later date). Added Azir to matchups section. Tweaked some champion difficulties and content. September 30, 2014: Added Teemo to matchups, changed Nasus' rating, added small note on the skill order. September 15, 2014: Tweaked skill order, added Gnar to matchup section. September 12, 2014: Updated information for Mercurial Scimitar September 1, 2014: Updated magic resist runes, again. Swapped Banshee's Veil for Spirit Visage, as it has more beneficial stats, updated more info on the two items. August 29, 2014: FANEXPO WEEKEND UPDATE! Updated information on Malphite, in the process of collecting information for Maokai, sit tight guys. August 13, 2014: Added guide to playing against Pantheon, which can be found in the spoiler with his matchup information. Also debating doing this for every champion in this section, over time. August 12, 2014: Added Maw of Malmortius and Mercurial Scimitar information, this may be updated more later. July 30, 2014: Updates are coming less frequently now, since I found a job, so here's a slightly larger update... Sort of. Added Rengar matchup, added Essence Reaver to items at top, added Maw of Malmortius and Mercurial Scimitar to item section at top, information will come later, but lets just say they're silly. July 11, 2014: Added Pantheon to the matchup section. June 25, 2014: Added alternate mastery page, for those of you that prefer a more aggressive early game. June 18, 2014: Nidalee nerfs ahoy! Added Essence Reaver to Situational Items section, although the formatting won't be coming in till mobafire updates the database. Updated runes section and Overhauled Masteries Section formatting and contents. June 13, 2014: Added Youmuu's Ghostblade to the situational items section. June 9, 2014: Added information on Ryze to the matchup section, fixed a few typos from the new information. June 8, 2014: Finally found a fiora player to practice with and updated the matchup section on her. May 25, 2014: Fixed (what I hope is) the last typo, updated lane matchup ratings. May 24, 2014: Updated Items section with information on grabbing an early Avarice Blade. May 23, 2014: Updated rune section to better comply with recent tests, updated formatting in rune section. May 20, 2014: Updated build order and item information, to better coincide with what I tend to gravitate towards, as well as to increase efficiency. Fixed some small typos May 11, 2014: Fixed a small error with Jax's and Vladimir's skills not showing up correctly in the Matchup section, added Jarvan IV to matchups, updated data on Riven (finally), added Banshee's Veil to situational items. April 27, 2014: Updated items section again, to make it easier to read. Put changelog into a spoiler because of its massive length. April 26, 2014: Updated summoner spells chapter formatting, added more options, tweaked some information. April 23, 2014: Updated Main build, split situational items and main items into two separate chapters, fixed some formatting and typos. April 21, 2014: Celebrated the end of Easter by updating the items section to look nicer. April 17, 2014: Moved Changelog to the bottom of the page (Because it was getting long), Began lengthy task of updating the guide formatting, skills section complete. April 03, 2014: Updated skilling order to max Remove Scurvy before Raise Morale, rather than the other way around. Added small blurb on playing Gangplank mid. March 21, 2014: Added Warmog's Armor to Items section, and updated information on Guardian Angel, based on more testing. March 10, 2014: Added Yasuo to the Lane Matchups section. March 1, 2014: Changed a bit about Infinity Edge February 15, 2014: Fixed some more typos February 1, 2014: Fixed a few typos January 30, 2014: Added ability icons for Matchups section, added Randuin's Omen and Spirit Visage to Defensive Items section. Fixed a few sentences that didn't sound right January 6, 2014: Removed remnants of Ancient Coin, fixed typos, added a bit more to the Laning section. January 2, 2014: Changed starting items based on some more tests and an interesting comment from pepsiM4A1 (+rep'd) January 1, 2014: Happy New Years! (Added a small blurb on Ancient Coin found in the items section, to prevent confusion) December 29, 2013: Fixed ability sequence... again (hopefully for good this time), updated masteries so that they make more sense, tweaked information on Aatrox, fixed Feast ... again December 28, 2013: Fixed ability sequence, so there's no longer 6 points in Raise Morale December 24, 2013: Fixed some small typos and made Feast appear as it should ( Feast ) December 16, 2013: Finished reworked guide and released it to the public (finally) December 8, 2013: Re-wrote guide from scratch, to suit the pre-season 4 patch Some time in mid 2013: Started re-working guide to suit pre-season 4 patch. December 5, 2012: Initial guide created.
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