Aphelios with Gangplank
How to Synergize Aphelios and Gangplank
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Aphelios Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Gangplank
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Aphelios perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Gangplank, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Gangplank doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Gangplank
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Aphelios that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Gangplank is a relatively poor companion for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 45.6%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Aphelios and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when lining up Gangplank allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Aphelios and Gangplank synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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