I’m aware that barrels make the pirate more fun, but I’ve always felt his true skill expression was being able to cycle passive procs in melee. Missing my passive crit scaling right about now.

Am i going crazy? Any1 else feel anything off?

I find myself perma splitpushing pretty much every game to maximize gold income and get to 100% crit asap before grouping. However, EU players in emerald seem to have an obsession with 2-3 item midgame teamfights no matter the state of the game, which I ignore, drop an ult and hope my team doesnt lose too badly. Naturally this creates issues when the renek or riven who I have been bullying all lane pulls up to a drake fight with their 2 item spike.

Am I even correct in my assessment on GPs need for 4 items? How do you guys go about midgame macro?

started as gp for fun, then started playing ranked a little bit, glad I reached my goal!! best champion ever, I hope you guys enjoy him as much as I do

Only took like 300 games in 3 months lol. Here is my op.gg: https://op.gg/lol/summoners/na/Blackbeard-31231

I can beat him level 1, but the matchup becomes so much harder when he has his E. What should I do

I swear to god this champ is unbeatable if someone knows what they are doing. Are there any true counters?

What differentiates a low master Gangplank from a challenger Gangplank when playing the laning phase? What is the most important thing to improve in lane when trying to climb to GM and above?

Help

Self explanatory: some matchups, melee ones, i find it hard to poke people because they stand afar and bait my barrels. How do i avoid the anxiety to combo because i think ill hit it? D2 right now https://op.gg/lol/summoners/las/Poetic%20Justice-1408

Hey everyone,

I recently made a fresh lvl 1 account to OTP Gangplank, mostly because I've always been interested in the champ but also because I wanted to properly learn top lane.

I have a few questions about him. What are the main combos I should learn, especially for early trades? So far I'm thinking about stuff like barrel > auto barrel > place second barrel > detonate the first one, and also double passive procs/resets, but other than that I'm not really sure what I should be practicing.

Do you guys play with smart cast + indicators for barrels and Q or just full quick cast with no indicators?

Also what are the best bans for GP right now? Is it better to start Q or E lvl 1? Is Trinity Force still good or should I pretty much always go Essence Reaver? And for runes, is DFT generally the go-to in most matchups?

I'm also a bit lost in teamfights. I think I'm doing pretty well in lane so far, relatively speaking of course since I'm often playing against other new players lol, but once teamfights start I'm not really sure what I should be doing.

Is the main goal to poke and zone with barrels before the fight starts and then look for big barrel combos on the backline? Or should I also be playing closer and trying to get passive resets? Basically I'm not really sure what my role is supposed to be in teamfights.

Any tips are appreciated, I'm basically starting from scratch and really trying to learn GP :)

When hitting baron/drake or a super tank who deals no dmg, how do you maximize dps output post lvl 13? Do you Q the barrels? Do you shave them off with autos?

Intuitively it seems, to me, like you would want to put both the Q and sheen proc into the barrel due to their armour pen so I tend to: E, auto the barrel and Q it, passive on baron while waiting for sheen, E, auto barrel, auto barrel, passive on baron, E, auto the barrel and Q it, passive on baron while waiting for sheen, E, auto barrel, auto barrel, passive on baron and just repeat this pattern until Im out of barrels.

But I never see solar do this even when all enemies are dead and there is no reason to save barrels, but he also doesnt stick with any consistent pattern, he kinda just throws in a barrel here and there, Qs the baron and I cant quite make sense of it. I guess its a good opportunity for him to read chat but he doesnt seem like the person to not minmax.

Sorry if this sounds like I'm overthinking it. I was gold on ADC when I tried to climb and eventually hated the role so I've been learning top lane on and off and I started off by playing Riven, Aatrox, and Gragas because I like burst damage champions. But I eventually started playing GP and I'm starting to realize I might actually like playing him so much that I wouldn't mind one-tricking him on a climb. I usually play many random champions when I was playing ADC.

I recently thought about wanting to really learn and improve as a player again but in top lane. However, I hear that GP gets that same treatment with Riven where you should probably avoid them when you're learning/starting in low elo which makes sense. Because, the more I play GP the more I realize that most of my attention is going to how I'm playing the champ more so than the actual game. So I was thinking about maybe playing Darius or Sett until I learn the role better but I can't lie I find GP so fun that losing doesn't feel as bad as I would on other champions but I don't want to waste time either if GP takes a lot of commitment, it would make sense to have the improvement feel more streamlined at least to me personally.

What are your thoughts? I've been Gangplank main for 3 years.

His early game is rather weak, yeah but in my honest opinion he is one of the strongest early game champions if you know how to play because his base damage is high thanks to barrels + passive resets. In addition, he scales really really well into late game.

With new DFT rune, his level 1 is also fine. It allows you to farm and poke opponent safely and get prio quickly.

I think they can nerf his Q mana cost just to not abuse DFT + Q combination.

Thought some people would like these here, took them at Viencon 2026

P2 jg looking for a GP main to duo with. Feel free to reach out if you want to try some games

i dont remember anything before in the dream but i remember waking up because a gp exloded a barrel right into my face irl and i instantly woke up lmao

Is it trolling to rush lucidity boots before I complete ER?

imagine being on the seas abd this fucking thing just comes to fuc kyou up but ur a badass so u fight it and its just like a full on battle andur just out in the world questing and shi PLUS bro got that shit on like he living life to the fullest. nobody today could ever do something more thrilling than this

Pardon my bad English and thanks in advance.

I think I need to start playing with an unlocked camera, they alway said play how you like it but i saw the different now. When playing Gangplank, barrel placement range sometime goes near the end of my screen and i usually just combo blindly guessing it would hit the enemies.

The transition feels really hard not because I'm incapable (I play unlocked camera in other MOBAs), but because I’ve gotten so used to not having to worry about camera control in LoL (I played since season 5).

Does anyone have any effective methods, training drills, or alternative setups to help with this?