Brand vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Brand
based on 3,230 Brand vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Gangplank
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Brand vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several significant Brand vs. Gangplank counter stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gangplank..
Brand typically has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Brand or Gangplank?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 53.5% win rate. Therefore, Brand makes a great counter for Gangplank.
While Brand does have a higher win rate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Gangplank.
Moreover, Brand has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Brand vs Gangplank matchups, Brand is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Brand is a great counter for Gangplank. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand to counter Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Brand versus Gangplank build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Morellonomicon, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 53.5% when playing against Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Gangplank as Brand, Brand players should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Brand vs Gangplank LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.5% win rate overall.
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