Gangplank vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Gangplank
based on 1,746 Gangplank vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gangplank vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Gangplank vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gangplank against Lee Sin
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.
Advice to Win Against Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Gangplank vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Gangplank in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some significant Gangplank versus Lee Sin counter stats that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Lee Sin..
Gangplank normally has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gangplank and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Gangplank or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually wins when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Gangplank makes a good counter for Lee Sin.
While Gangplank does have a higher winrate compared to Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Gangplank also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Gangplank into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gangplank has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Lee Sin matchups, Gangplank is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gangplank is an above average counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank to counter Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank most often gets much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gangplank versus Lee Sin build consist of Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Lee Sin than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 52.5% when playing against Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Lee Sin as Gangplank, Gangplank players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Gangplank vs Lee Sin counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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