K'Sante with Gangplank
How to Synergize K'Sante and Gangplank
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K'Sante Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Gangplank
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a large worsening in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps K'Sante perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Gangplank, they gets a small decrease in their full damage output. This change may signal that Gangplank does not provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when K'Sante plays with Gangplank on the same team, they typically takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting K'Sante in team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Gangplank
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best ally for K'Sante that will always be their #1 synergy. However, Gangplank is a very bad teammate for K'Sante. By locking into the same team as K'Sante, he decreases their win rate by -4.0% to 43.2%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between K'Sante and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gangplank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, K'Sante players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing K'Sante and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to work well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your K'Sante and Gangplank synergy build include Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three items in their build, they performed a lot better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 43.2% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, K'Sante players should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.2% win rate overall.
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