Irelia with Gangplank
How to Synergize Irelia and Gangplank
based on 699 Irelia with Gangplank pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Gangplank
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Irelia perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Gangplank, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gangplank helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Irelia plays with Gangplank on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Irelia during teamfights.
Synergies between Irelia and Gangplank
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Irelia that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a not very good companion for Irelia. By being on the same team as Irelia, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 48.6%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Irelia and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Irelia. That means you need to be careful when enlisting Gangplank allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Irelia players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Irelia and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Irelia in order to pair well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Irelia and Gangplank synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Blade of The Ruined King, and Sundered Sky. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia had an average winrate of 48.6% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Irelia and Gangplank pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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