Akshan with Gangplank
How to Synergize Akshan and Gangplank
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Akshan Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Akshan with Gangplank
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank helps Akshan perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akshan is paired with Gangplank, they gets a marginal improvement in their total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Gangplank provides protection for them to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played alongside Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Gangplank on the same team, they usually receives more damage than when they plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Akshan in team fights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top synergy for Akshan that will always be their top teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a terrible teammate for Akshan. By being on the same side as Akshan, he drops their win rate by -6.4% to 42.6%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Akshan and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means Akshan players should be cautious when finding Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Akshan and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your side enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan in order to pair well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Akshan and Gangplank synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan used at least these three finished items in their build, they performed much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 42.6% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.6% win rate overall.
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