Ziggs with Gangplank
How to Synergize Ziggs and Gangplank
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Ziggs Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Ziggs vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ziggs and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Ziggs with Gangplank
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
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.
Ziggs Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Ziggs in LoL
The Ziggs 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, Ziggs sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Ziggs perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ziggs is paired with Gangplank, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gangplank supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Ziggs is played with Gangplank on the same side, 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 Ziggs plays with Gangplank on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Ziggs in team fights.
Synergies between Ziggs and Gangplank
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Is Ziggs better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best ally for Ziggs that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a very bad teammate for Ziggs. By playing on the same team as Ziggs, he drops their win rate by -4.5% to 43.6%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Ziggs and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Ziggs. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Ziggs and Gangplank together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ziggs to pair well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Ziggs and Gangplank synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ziggs combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gangplank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ziggs had an average winrate of 43.6% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Ziggs players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 43.6% win rate overall.
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