Aatrox with Gangplank
How to Synergize Aatrox and Gangplank
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Aatrox Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Aatrox vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Gangplank
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Aatrox Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aatrox is paired with Gangplank, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Gangplank provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Gangplank on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Aatrox in teamfights.
Synergies between Aatrox and Gangplank
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best companion for Aatrox that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a fantastic ally for Aatrox. By being on the same team as Aatrox, he improves their win rate by 4.7% to 55.2%. This signals that there is a very strong bond between Aatrox and Gangplank that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means Aatrox players must be very careful when finding Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Aatrox and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your team enough utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox to synergize with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Aatrox and Gangplank synergy build consist of Eclipse, Black Cleaver, and Serylda's Grudge. When Aatrox used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average win rate of 55.2% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.2% winrate overall.
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