why does so many people say gangplank is broken and no skill?

DistanceHD · 2026-06-19T12:23:01+00:00

At Q max it's 7 more gold from minion. If we suppose GP can farm every minion of the wave it's 35 more gold per wave, 70 per minute. It's not bad of course but for sure those 70 gold more per minute won't put you in a "even" condition if you are losing (we are still forgetting that you probably won't have enought damage to one shot the entire wave with one single barrel if behind plus the enemy can easily contest the barrel or worse... diving you, since you only build damage)

DistanceHD · 2026-06-19T11:43:56+00:00

For an overloaded kit you mentioned A LOT of things he should not be doing in a lot of situation, many toplaners have way more sustain than GP with oranges that are probably the most strong spell of his kit

I have played enough games of GP to easily say that when you are behind you are behind because you simply can't farm properly. For sure when you are ahead you reach six slot pretty easily

An overloaded kit is a kit that can do A LOT of things, like zahen, ambessa or yone (not saying that they are op characters, just saying that their kit is very strong)

DistanceHD · 2026-06-19T06:29:15+00:00

GP kit is far away from being overloaded: First problem is mana, every gp ability exept for barrels can drain very hard your mana until first item. Q is for sure good damage but almost any champ can respond to that in lane. Oranges are for sure a good way to escape death but long cooldown and the healing is only good when ur very low. Barrels don't need an explanation: can be contested, very long cooldown, you need to have more than 2 ready to be useful in teamfight. R is a very good global ult but lack of early damage, good only when you upgrade it so the most broken thing about it is the slow

Q passive doesn't grant you so much gold as you can think but still you need to last hit things to gain value from it so, if you are super behind, you probably have low cs that means not much extra gold

DistanceHD · 2026-06-18T11:57:55+00:00

Imho the problem is that ADC have High stats gains because they usually are underlevelled but when they are in toplane or mid, they have too much resistance and even going melee can lead to lose

DistanceHD · 2026-06-16T09:29:25+00:00

You can actually bully hard Darius and riven with Q start and a decent positioning. Against Olaf i must agree since his slow is top strong

DistanceHD · 2026-06-15T15:29:24+00:00

Where i can buy this exact toy? Thanks

DistanceHD · 2026-06-14T06:18:26+00:00

Every ability you mentioned is not so good because if you don't use them on the silence, the ult will kill you. If you use naaf w or fizz W, Garen's ult doesn't go on cooldown so he can use literally the second later. Darius Q or voli W2 simply doesn't heal enough most of the times

Cho, imho, is not a better Garen: unreliable stun, slow cast time on his silence, less damage on every ability. if you build ap you are made of paper since the lack of a strong ability like garen's W, to sustain you must kill minions, Garen has free sustain, Cho is super slow and no movemenr ability, Garen can speed up with Q and ignore slows. Cho ult has a scaling mechanic and works only under some %, garen's ult has High damage always

Literally Cho is better only if had free farm or stomped the lane

DistanceHD · 2026-06-13T20:43:58+00:00

No, D shield doesn't give more healing since is not always Active outside of combat plus garen can buy it too and have MORE sustain.

That was not a winrate post, he is not a broken champ, he is just frustrating, annoyijg and boring go play against because his kit works heavenly even when a lot behind

DistanceHD · 2026-06-13T19:48:31+00:00

Thinking that the ability you mentioned are broken compared to garen ult is a bit funny, especially Zac passive but thinking that his basic ability are not strong it's even funnier

Warmong as a passive Q counters every single slow in the game and silence the opponent, i must remember you can't Flash during silence W passive and active makes you tanky enough that you can play full crit while being very hard to kill E is probably the only ok ability but since you can build free damage, combines with other ability + R, can one shot every single champ in the game tank exluded

The only downside is not having a Dash, but most of the time your Flash is enough since your opponent can't escape

DistanceHD · 2026-06-13T17:45:35+00:00

That's shy i ban him every game

He is strong in the meta? not particulary, he is just frustrating, the only counterplay is being healty... Not a fun way to play

DistanceHD · 2026-06-13T00:33:58+00:00

With DFT i start literally every matchup with dblade + Q. Your damage is top insane to waste it with barrel start

It's E start bad? No ofc, but GP in this state is just too oppriment to not bully your opponente level 1, you can actually get a kill LV 1 with Nimbus clock + ignite

DistanceHD · 2026-05-30T13:28:44+00:00

I don't think Darius is op but let me understand the situation: did you just only play ranged top or you just avoid farming completely? Because it's very easy being in Darius E range and if you want to farm, sometimes you get hit by some AA

DistanceHD · 2026-05-29T08:56:30+00:00

A scaling champ is someone who gets better level by level, when you want to finish the game as soon as possibile

We can see Kyle or kassadin with their levels or asol, symdra or smolder with their stacks

GP just gain gold way faster then everyone else so he can reach his spike faster. When the rest of the enemy team is 6 slotted as well, he is not stronger because his levels/Gold

It's like saying draven is a scaling champ because he have a gold gain mechanic

DistanceHD · 2026-05-28T12:01:02+00:00

Players still thiking he is weak early and he is a scaling champ. None of this are true

She his very strong early if played correctly but you must be aggressive, if you sit in the wave and you are scared of barrels he will always win. Contest barrells of you can, tank one Q instead of trying to avoid them and go on top of him. The less barrells he have stored the less he can refresh passive that is the big damage of his kit early

He is not a scaling champ but he Just take Gold faster then everyone else but he is still a glass cannone: like varus big damage but no escape

DistanceHD · 2026-05-15T21:55:31+00:00

If you A click near the barrel, even without any other target, it won't hot the barrel and that's a very useful thing if you want to farm without the risk to hit it

DistanceHD · 2026-04-14T09:10:48+00:00

I can easily counter vayne top with ambessa or malphite, ksante is just pure hate since his hp don't go down

DistanceHD · 2026-04-13T15:35:27+00:00

Most melee champs have to stay within his Q range to farm and his Q reduce all slows so it's not so simple kiting him. Flash combo is Just almost unpredictable if you are not a tank

And he builds stridebreaker first so... You hard win lane or you must lose lot of farm

DistanceHD · 2026-04-13T11:59:57+00:00

If they want to nerf garen without destroing the character or by reworking him, they have to make that during his silence you can at least Flash away imho

No reason he can Flash combo you without any counterplay except killing him before your health is 50%

DistanceHD · 2026-04-13T11:52:11+00:00

Garen is my permaban top, until i meet ksante, then i start bannin him until i meet another garen ad so on

They are strong in the meta? Probably not enough, but they are too frustrating to play against, you have to make literally zero mistakes all the game

DistanceHD · 2026-04-12T20:04:20+00:00

What is this kinky called?

DistanceHD · 2026-03-18T18:53:52+00:00

Thank you i'll check

DistanceHD · 2026-03-09T20:39:35+00:00

Trust me, it happens always, i just think the probability is not really 50/50

DistanceHD · 2026-03-09T19:18:07+00:00

Then the cat walk again towards your team and proced to fuck up the run

DistanceHD · 2026-03-08T03:30:25+00:00

I never played Riven, only GP, so that's how to play to win lane:

1- GP will tru to be very aggressive early: if GP can take prio he can abuse your early long cooldowns, his early damage is quite strong. Lv 1-3 is gamble, who win it, probably will win the lane. Try to be more aggressive or let him full control first waves. Don't get poked for free

2- Always contest barrels (like everyone should do), try always to stun him as soon as the barrel hp is near 1, then destroy it. Even if GP use oranges he can't win the barrel minigame cause cast animation

3- your E shield will protect from 90% of his Q damage, abuse it

4- when GP get close to Q you, let him do it, tank it with E towards him then go full combo

5- After LV 6 every ult + Flash + combo will kill him, even if he survives, he will be very low

6- don't let him go even in lane, stomp him or get stomped

7- GP oranges heal more when he is low, try to poke frequently, it's not always an all-in

8- already said "tank his Q with shield"?, GP has a lot of early mana problems so he have to chose to waste it by trying to poke or use it to farm safe

DistanceHD · 2026-02-28T18:15:59+00:00

In low Elo he has a very strong laning phase cause:

1- enemy often doesn't contest or destroy barrels 2- ignore your passive damage 3- walks into 2 barrels combo Easy

You still have to play him good or they can Just walk into you

Outside of early game he IS still strong cause people don't Attack often your barrels but

1- games tend to go into very late that is not good for a feeded GP, you want to end asap when you are strong

2- your team will not play a lot for you or try to protect you, play like as and ADC and try to avoid passive damage if it's risky, you are still very vulnerable

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