Bard with Gangplank
How to Synergize Bard and Gangplank
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Bard Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Bard with Gangplank
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Bard perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Gangplank, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Gangplank supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Gangplank on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a very typical companion for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 51.7%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Bard and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, Bard players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your side very much AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Gangplank synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gangplank than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.7% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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