Gangplank with Irelia
How to Synergize Gangplank and Irelia
based on 699 Gangplank with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gangplank Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Irelia
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.
Advice to Understand How Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Gangplank Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gangplank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Irelia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Irelia helps Gangplank perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Irelia, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Irelia does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Irelia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Irelia.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Irelia on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Irelia does a decent job of covering Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Irelia
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Irelia is a very typical companion for Gangplank. By being on the same side as Gangplank, she has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Gangplank and Irelia that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be careful when arranging Irelia comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, Gangplank players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Gangplank and Irelia together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Irelia ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gangplank in order to synergize with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Gangplank and Irelia synergy build consist of Essence Reaver, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Irelia than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 48.6% helping carry Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Gangplank players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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