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.
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Gangplank vs. Lissandra counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lissandra..
Gangplank usually has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gangplank usually wins when facing off against Lissandra, with a 51.6% win rate. As a result, Gangplank makes a good counter for Lissandra.
While Gangplank does have a higher winrate compared to Lissandra, when facing one another, Gangplank also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gangplank into Lissandraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gangplank has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Lissandra matchups, Gangplank is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gangplank is a decent counter to Lissandra. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gangplank against Lissandra.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to counter Lissandra during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gangplank versus Lissandra build include Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and Navori Quickblades. When Gangplank used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 51.6% when countering Lissandra with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Lissandra as Gangplank, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Gangplank vs Lissandra battles, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.6% winrate overall.
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