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.
Trundle is very powerful at location-based combat. Try to draw him off of his Frozen Domain.
Make sure to get out of his Pillar of Ice as quickly as possible, as it significantly slows you down.
The stats provided here show some critical Gangplank against Trundle counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. Gangplank’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Trundle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gangplank may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Trundle..
Gangplank usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Trundle. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gangplank usually loses when facing off against Trundle, with a 45.0% win rate. As a result, Gangplank makes a poor counter to Trundle.
While Gangplank does have a much lower win rate compared to Trundle, when they face off with one another, Gangplank also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gangplank into Trundleas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gangplank also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Trundle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gangplank vs Trundle matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gangplank is a trash counter to Trundle. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gangplank against Trundle.
If you would like to truly master Gangplank in order to counter Trundle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gangplank typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Trundle. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gangplank versus Trundle build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Trundle than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average winrate of 45.0% when playing against Trundle with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Trundle as Gangplank, you should use 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 builds players chose for Gangplank vs Trundle counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% win rate overall.
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