Rakan with Gangplank
How to Synergize Rakan and Gangplank
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Rakan Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Gangplank
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan 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, Rakan sees a very large drop in his 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 Rakan perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is an ally to Gangplank, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may indicate that Gangplank helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Rakan plays with Gangplank on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Rakan in team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Gangplank
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a pretty good ally for Rakan. By playing on the same team as Rakan, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 51.9%. This shows that there is a good strategic relationship between Rakan and Gangplank that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Rakan. That means Rakan players should be very careful when finding Gangplank allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Rakan and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold 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 Rakan in order to pair well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Rakan and Gangplank synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Knight's Vow. When Rakan included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.9% win rate overall.
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