Gragas with Gangplank
How to Synergize Gragas and Gangplank
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Gragas Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Gangplank
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
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.
Gragas Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gangplank helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gragas is paired with Gangplank, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Gangplank doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played with Gangplank 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 with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Gragas plays with Gangplank on the same side, he typically receives more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Gragas in teamfights.
Synergies between Gragas and Gangplank
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect ally for Gragas that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a decent companion for Gragas. By playing on the same team as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 2.7% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Gragas and Gangplank that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means Gragas players must be careful when finding Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gragas players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Gragas and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your team enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Gragas in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Gragas and Gangplank synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Gragas bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 50.6% helping carry Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gragas players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.6% win rate overall.
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