Kayle vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Kayle
based on 1,755 Kayle vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Gangplank
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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!
Kayle vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some critical Kayle against Gangplank counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gangplank..
Kayle often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Kayle or Gangplank?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when playing against Gangplank, with a 54.5% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a great counter for Gangplank.
While Kayle does have a much higher winrate compared to Gangplank, when facing one another, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Gangplankas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Gangplank matchups, Kayle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kayle is a great counter to Gangplank. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayle to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Gangplank build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle bought at least these three items in her build, she did much better versus Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 54.5% when playing against Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Gangplank as Kayle, Kayle players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Kayle vs Gangplank fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 54.5% win rate overall.
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