Gangplank with Rakan
How to Synergize Gangplank and Rakan
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Gangplank Rakan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Gangplank Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Rakan helps Gangplank perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Rakan, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played together with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Rakan. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Rakan on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Gangplank during teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Rakan
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Rakan is a great companion for Gangplank. By playing on the same team as Gangplank, he raises their win rate by 3.3% to 51.9%. This clearly indicates that there is an important bond between Gangplank and Rakan that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Rakan allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Gangplank and Rakan together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough attack damage. Plan to include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Rakan ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to pair well with Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to use in your Gangplank and Rakan synergy build include Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and Navori Quickblades. When Gangplank incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Rakan than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average winrate of 51.9% when playing alongside Rakan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Gangplank players should take 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 mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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