Caitlyn with Gangplank
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Gangplank
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Caitlyn Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Gangplank
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Caitlyn perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn is paired with Gangplank, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Gangplank helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Gangplank on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Caitlyn that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Gangplank is a very typical companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 48.8%. This proves that there is only a small strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you must be cautious when arranging Gangplank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability 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 aligning Caitlyn and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing 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 truly master Caitlyn to work well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Caitlyn and Gangplank synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Opportunity. When Caitlyn bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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