Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
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!
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Quinn against Gangplank counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Quinn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Quinn may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gangplank..
Quinn normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Quinn usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 53.8% win rate. Therefore, Quinn makes a great counter for Gangplank.
While Quinn does have a higher win rate compared to Gangplank, when facing one another, Quinn also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Quinn into Gangplank.
Additionally, Quinn has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. 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 in League of Legends, in Quinn vs Gangplank matchups, Quinn is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Quinn is a great counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Quinn against Gangplank.
To learn all of the intricacies of Quinn in order to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Quinn often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Gangplank. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Quinn versus Gangplank build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Quinn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Quinn had an average win rate of 53.8% battling Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Gangplank as Quinn, Quinn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Quinn vs Gangplank counter picks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.8% win rate overall.
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