Gangplank with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Gangplank and Lee Sin
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Gangplank Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Gangplank Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lee Sin helps Gangplank perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Lee Sin, he gets a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Lee Sin supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Lee Sin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Gangplank during team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Lee Sin
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no ideal ally for Gangplank that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Lee Sin is a terrible companion for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, he drops their win rate by -3.1% to 45.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Gangplank and Lee Sin that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Lee Sin has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be very careful when arranging Lee Sin allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Gangplank and Lee Sin together, you may not be providing your other allies very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank to work well with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gangplank and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Lee Sin than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Gangplank players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.5% win rate overall.
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