Kai'Sa with Gangplank
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Gangplank
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Kai'Sa Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Gangplank
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank helps Kai'Sa perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa is an ally to Gangplank, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gangplank supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Gangplank on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
Synergies between Kai'Sa and Gangplank
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, overall, Gangplank is a not very good ally for Kai'Sa. By locking into the same team as Kai'Sa, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 44.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Kai'Sa and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means Kai'Sa players should be very careful when lining up Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Kai'Sa players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kai'Sa and Gangplank together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa to work well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Kai'Sa and Gangplank synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 44.2% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Kai'Sa and Gangplank pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.2% winrate overall.
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