You counter

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Gangplank Preferred Roles: Top Lane, Mid AP Gangplank in nutshell: Gangplank is sustained champion, with good mid game and forward. He has really good potential for team fights with his ultimate Cannon Barrage, team buff Raise Morale and solo top, because of his amazing gold income from items, Parrrley and sustain, cc removal from Remove Scurvy. You are not in condition to fight early on against basically most of the champions. Mid game is where you see the gold lead clearly and are able to go 1v1.

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Your Counters

Runes

R E C O M M E N D E D

I prefer that rune set-up for easier last hitting and potential damage trading and defense in top lane. You do not want to loose the lane and you want to get all the last hits you can get! The flat attack damage will help the last hitting, even if you are not so good at it, but do remember; you will most likely be pushed most of the time towards your tower. The defensive glyphs and seals give you enough magic resistance and armor to take hits from minions and to go trade against your enemy if necessary. You do not want to exchange damage, because you have not the best early game.

Masteries I prefer those masteries for maximising the damage out-put with as much defense as possible. Gangplank is not meant to be builded really squishy, if you would, you'd loose lot's of good potential by wasting them in support tree when the important points can be gotten from 9 points for the tree for the early game. The 21 points in Offensive are a bit better rather than 9-21, but it's really up to you. You can go 9-21 also.

Pro's & Con's + Gold income + Fun to play + Teamfight capability + High sustain + CC removal - Vulnerable to burst - Hard early game - No escaping abilities - Quite dependant on kiting

Thanks to Gott der meer, I created chapter just for Cannon Barrage. It's really devastating in a team fight. At max build each cannonball deals 300 magic damage and it shoots 25. Early game you can just use it to get assists from lanes. In team fights it synergies with AoE stuns. You can block enemies escape route, focus it for in the middle of cc for crazy amount of damage or help your team escape.

Tips & Tricks

• Use your ultimate to get assists for money income even on sure kills.
• Always focus squishy targets with Parrrley
• You are able to tank and go in as the first ones due your sustain
• Use W as a escape tool while being CC'd
• Remember to use basic attack in the middle of shots for maximum damage
  

Team Fights

As said already, your mission is to focus the squishiest enemy, preferably AD carry like Ashe, Vayne, Varus etc.. and make him/her unable to participate in the fight at all.

Start off with Cannon Barrage, which should create confusion and split enemies. Next pop-up your Parrrley's and chase him in range of basic attacks. You should be able to take all the hits, because of your tankiness and health regain from Remove Scurvy. Enemie's AD carry should go down really easily and gives your team quite a advantage.

If you are still alive and you're not getting focused, move on to the next enemy, propably AP carry and repeat the same thing, except that you do not have your ultimate ready.
This sounds easy, but the in-game team fight may be different. Basically maximize your utility, team fight potential and supportive skills and items and damage.

Closing

Thank you for reading trough everyone! I hope you didn't get bored & the new way of BBcoding wasn't too awkward and it was easy to understand everything, without going trough 1000 words. This was not as in-depth as other guides maybe, but I hope it has about the same information in short. Feel free to post comment & rate and please leave some feedback!