Gangplank vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Gangplank
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Gangplank vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against Lee Sin
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Gangplank vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Gangplank in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Gangplank vs. Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Gangplank normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gangplank and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Gangplank or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gangplank usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 54.5% win rate. Thus, Gangplank makes a great counter for Lee Sin.
While Gangplank does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Gangplank also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Gangplank into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gangplank has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Lee Sin matchups, Gangplank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gangplank is a great counter to Lee Sin. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gangplank in order to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank often racks up much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gangplank versus Lee Sin build include Prowler's Claw, Infinity Edge, and The Collector. When Gangplank included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Lee Sin than with many other common builds. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 54.5% battling Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Lee Sin as Gangplank, Gangplank players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Future's Market, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Gangplank vs Lee Sin LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.5% win rate overall.
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