Gangplank

The Saltwater Scourge · Specialist

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Summoner's Rift ARAM Arena Nexus Blitz URF One for All Swiftplay Ultimate Spellbook

Changes in ARAM

+5% damage dealt

Q

New Effect: Passively gains 1 Silver Serpents per second.

Abilities

PassiveTrial by Fire

Every few seconds, Gangplank's melee strike will set his opponent on fire.

QParrrley4.5s50/45/40/35/30

Shoots target, plundering Gold for each enemy unit killed.

WRemove Scurvy22/20/18/16/14s60/70/80/90/100

Eats citrus to cure crowd control effects and restore Health.

EPowder Keg0s

Gangplank uncovers a powder keg at target location. If he attacks it, it explodes, spreading the attack's damage to enemies in the area, slowing them.

RCannon Barrage160/140/120s100

Gangplank signals his ship to bombard an area, slowing and damaging enemies.

Patch history

26.10 · May 13, 2026

Powder Keg
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Damage modifiers are no longer applied to both the damage dealt to and by each keg.

26.9 · Apr 29, 2026

Trial by Fire
Undocumented / Removed: Is no longer applied as an on-hit effect.

26.1 · Jan 8, 2026

Trial by Fire
Removed: Total damage no longer scales with critical strike chance by 2 bonus damage per 1% critical strike chance.
Powder Keg
Bonus champion damage reduced to 75 to 155 from 75 to 195.
Removed: Explosions no longer deal 5% additional damage if the triggering spell on the keg critically struck.
Removed: Keg health decay speed no longer scales down to 0.25 seconds at level 19.

25.17 · Aug 27, 2025

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Explosion no longer sometimes cancels his and enemies' attack.

25.14 · Jul 16, 2025

Parrrley
Bug Fix: HUD now displays the proper mana cost, when the option is enabled.

35 older patches

25.13 · Jun 25, 2025

Parrrley
Mana cost reduced to 50 to 30 from 55 to 35.
Cannon Barrage
Cooldown reduced to 160 to 120 seconds from 170 to 130.

25.5

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Enemy kills from a chained Powder Keg after buffering Parrrley from out-of-range no longer fail to grant gold.

25.4

Stats
Attack damage growth increased to 4.2 from 3.7.

14.21

Base stats

Health630 +114/lvl
Mana280 +60/lvl
Attack Damage64 +4.2/lvl
Attack Speed0.658 +3.2/lvl
Armor31 +4.7/lvl
Magic Resist32 +2.05/lvl
Base Health Regen6 +0.6/lvl
Base Mana Regen8 +0.7/lvl
Move Speed345
Range125

Melee · Resource: Mana

Stats
Base mana regeneration increased to 8 from 7.5.
Powder Keg
Recharge timer reduced to 17 to 13 seconds from 18 to 14.

14.13

Powder Keg
Base slow increased to 40 to 80% from 30 to 60%.
Removed: Slow no longer increases by 0 to 25 by 2.5.

14.11

Stats
Base health increased to 630 from 600.
Armor growth increased to 4.7 from 4.2.

14.10

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Phantom barrel chaining is once again possible.

14.9

General
Adjusted splash artwork for FPX Gangplank.
Stats
Selection radius increased to 120 units from 85.

14.5

FPX Gangplank and Gangplank the Betrayer Gangplank
Bug Fix: VFX connecting the barrels now properly transition in as intended.

13.19

Cannon Barrage
Cooldown reduced to 170 to 130 seconds from 180 to 140.
Death's Daughter slow increased to 75% from 60%.
Raise Morale bonus movement speed increased to 40% from 30%.

13.12

Powder Keg
Recharge timer reduced to 18 to 14 seconds from 18 at all ranks.

13.5

Trial by Fire
Total base damage reduced to 50 to 250 from 55 to 310.
Base damage per tick reduced to 5 to 25 from 5.5 to 31.
Powder Keg
Recharge timer increased to 18 seconds at all ranks from 18 to 14.
New Effect: Amount of barrels now display as a secondary resource on his mana bar.

13.4

Cannon Barrage
Bug Fix: Once again displays tooltips in the upgrades UI.

12.16

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Barrel expiration times are now correctly displayed.

12.14

Stats
Base health reduced to 600 from 640.
Health growth increased to 114 from 104.
Base armor reduced to 31 from 35.
Trial by Fire
New Effect: Now deals an additional 0 to 200 true damage.
Parrrley
Base damage changed to 10 to 130 from 20 to 120.
Tooltip now additionally tracks Silver Serpents plundered.
Powder Keg
Bonus champion damage changed to 75 to 195 from 80 to 180.
Slow strength reduced to 30 to 60% from 40 to 80%.
New Effect: Slow strength is now increased by 0% to 25%.
Critical strike damage multiplier reduced to 110% from 125%.
Possible Bug: Tooltip no longer notes critical damage multiplier.

12.10

Stats
Base health increased to 640 from 570.
Health growth increased to 104 from 90.
Armor growth increased to 4.2 from 3.
Magic resistance growth increased to 2.05 from 1.25.
Remove Scurvy
Base heal reduced to 45 to 145 from 50 to 150.
Health ratio reduced to 13% missing health from 15%.

12.9

Cannon Barrage
Bug Fix: No longer cancels attack windups of allies in the area of effect after purchasing the Raise Morale upgrade.

12.7

Trial by Fire
Total base damage increased to 55 to 310 from 55 to 225.
Base damage per tick increased to 5.5 to 31 from 5.5 to 22.5.
Remove Scurvy
Mana cost reduced to 60 to 100 from 80 to 120.

12.4

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Casting it no longer triggers a stack of Tear of the Goddess Mana Charge.

12.1

Parrrley
Cooldown reduced to 4.5 seconds from 5.
Mana cost reduced to 55 to 35 from 60 to 40.

11.21

Parrrley
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it still healed for 20% instead of 10% from Fleet Footwork.

11.18

Stats
Base health increased to 570 from 540.
Health growth increased to 90 from 82.

11.17

Trial by Fire
Bonus movement speed reduced to 15% to 30% from 30% at all levels.
Parrrley
New Effect: Now interacts with hit effects as if Gangplank was ranged.
Undocumented / Bug: Critical strikes of Parrrley now modify its total damage, instead of modifying only the AD ratio.
Critical Parrrley damage increased to [20 to 120 (+ 100% AD)]175] from 20 to 120 [+100% AD175]
Powder Keg
New Effect: Attacks and Parrrley that critically strike the Keg to explode have their damage increased by 25% before the Keg splashes it.
This includes the Spellblade damage applied by the attack or stored on the barrel.
Number of barrels increased to 3 from 3 at all ranks.
Recharge timer increased to 18 to 14 seconds from 18 to 10.

11.7

General
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the UI would show square icons, not circle ones.

11.3

General
New interface added for upgrades to Cannon Barrage with Silver Serpents.

11.1

Stats
Base magic resistance reduced to 32 from 32.1.

10.25

Stats
Attack damage growth increased to 4 from 3.

10.23

Cannon Barrage
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he was able to rapidly buy all 3 upgrades with only 500 Silver Serpents.
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where he was locked out of buying upgrades if the player disconnected.
Stats
Base mana reduced to 280 from 282.
Mana growth increased to 60 from 40.

10.11

Stats
Attack speed ratio increased to 0.69 from 0.658.
Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Barrels no longer stack bonus Sheen damage when chained.

10.6

Parrrley
Bug Fix: Now properly gains bonus gold or Silver Serpents if the energized lightning from Statikk Shiv kills a target.

10.3

Parrrley
Now correctly triggers on-attack effects.

9.22

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Barrels no longer trigger Noxious Trap shrooms.

9.5

Powder Keg
Bonus damage against champions increased to 80 to 180 from 60 to 180.
Cannon Barrage
Base damage per wave increased to 40 to 100 from 35 to 85.

8.23

Cannon Barrage
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing it to always deal rank 1 damage.

8.6

Powder Keg
Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where his basic attack, when empowered by Hymn of Valor, would detonate his barrels.