Bard vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Bard
based on 1,604 Bard vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Gangplank
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Bard vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several valuable Bard vs. Gangplank counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gangplank. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Gangplank. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Bard or Gangplank?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Gangplank, with a 54.9% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Gangplank.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Gangplankas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Gangplank matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Gangplank. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average racks up a lot less CS as Gangplank. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Gangplank build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Gangplank than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 54.9% battling Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Gangplank as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Bard vs Gangplank counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.9% winrate overall.
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