Leona with Gangplank
How to Synergize Leona and Gangplank
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Leona Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Leona with Gangplank
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Leona perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Gangplank, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Gangplank helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played with Gangplank on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Gangplank on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Gangplank
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Is Leona better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Leona that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Leona. By being on the same side as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 51.6%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Leona and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means Leona players must be cautious when enlisting Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Leona players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Leona and Gangplank together, you will not be providing your team enough magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Leona to pair well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to use in your Leona and Gangplank synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 51.6% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Leona players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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