Rengar with Gangplank
How to Synergize Rengar and Gangplank
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Rengar Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Rengar and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Rengar with Gangplank
Make sure to take paths through brush when chasing opponents to take advantage of Rengar's passive.
Use Rengar's ultimate to find and assassinate high priority targets in team fights and skirmishes.
A lot of Rengar's power comes from empowered abilities he uses at the right moment - choose wisely!
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.
Rengar Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Rengar in LoL
The Rengar 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, Rengar sees a large worsening 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 Rengar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rengar plays on the same team as Gangplank, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Gangplank provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rengar is played alongside Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Rengar plays with Gangplank on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Rengar during team fights.
Synergies between Rengar and Gangplank
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Is Rengar better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best companion for Rengar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a not very good ally for Rengar. By being on the same team as Rengar, he lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 47.4%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Rengar and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Rengar. That means Rengar players must be very careful when finding Gangplank allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Rengar and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 Rengar to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Rengar and Gangplank synergy build consist of Axiom Arc, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Rengar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rengar had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Rengar and Gangplank pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Gangplank with Rengar are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.