Warwick vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Warwick
based on 2,282 Warwick vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Gangplank
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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!
Warwick vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Warwick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some influential Warwick vs. Gangplank matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gangplank..
Warwick normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Gangplank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Warwick or Gangplank?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Warwick usually wins when playing against Gangplank, with a 52.1% win rate. Thus, Warwick makes a good counter for Gangplank.
While Warwick does have a higher win rate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Warwick also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Warwick into Gangplank.
Additionally, Warwick also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Warwick vs Gangplank matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Warwick is a good counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to counter Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gangplank. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Warwick versus Gangplank build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Sundered Sky. When Warwick bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Warwick had an average win rate of 52.1% when playing against Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Gangplank as Warwick, Warwick players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Warwick vs Gangplank counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.1% win rate overall.
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