Morgana vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Morgana
based on 2,755 Morgana vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Gangplank
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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!
Morgana vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Morgana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Morgana vs. Gangplank matchup stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gangplank. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Morgana usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Morgana and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Morgana or Gangplank?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually wins when facing off against Gangplank, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Morgana makes a good counter to Gangplank.
While Morgana does have a higher winrate compared to Gangplank, when on opposite teams, Morgana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Morgana into Gangplank.
Moreover, Morgana also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Gangplank matchups, Morgana 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 team fights.
Morgana is an above average counter for Gangplank. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Morgana in order to counter Gangplank during both the lane 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana usually accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Morgana versus Gangplank build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Morgana included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Morgana had an average win rate of 52.6% battling Gangplank with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Gangplank as Morgana, Morgana players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Triple Tonic runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Morgana vs Gangplank counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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