Gangplank with Nidalee
How to Synergize Gangplank and Nidalee
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Gangplank Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Gangplank Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Gangplank perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank tries to synergize with Nidalee, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Nidalee provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Gangplank during teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Nidalee
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect ally for Gangplank that will no matter what be his top teammate. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible companion for Gangplank. By being on the same team as Gangplank, she drops their win rate by -10.1% to 38.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Gangplank and Nidalee that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nidalee teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Gangplank and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
If you would like to truly master Gangplank in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Gangplank and Nidalee synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 38.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 38.5% winrate overall.
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