Gangplank with Wukong
How to Synergize Gangplank and Wukong
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Gangplank Wukong Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Gangplank Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Wukong helps Gangplank perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is paired with Wukong, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Wukong does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played alongside Wukong on the same side, 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 with Wukong.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Wukong on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Wukong does a decent job of covering Gangplank during team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Wukong
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no ideal ally for Gangplank that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Wukong is a decent teammate for Gangplank. By playing on the same team as Gangplank, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 51.2%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Gangplank and Wukong that results in them performing better together than alone.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be careful when arranging Wukong allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Gangplank and Wukong together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Wukong teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank to pair well with Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Gangplank and Wukong synergy build consist of Essence Reaver, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Wukong than with many other common builds. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Wukong with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Gangplank players should equip 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 rune sets players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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