Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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 stats provided here show some valuable Singed against Gangplank matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gangplank..
Singed normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Singed usually wins when playing against Gangplank, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Singed makes a good counter for Gangplank.
While Singed does have a higher win rate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Singed also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Singed into Gangplank.
Furthermore, Singed also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Singed vs Gangplank matchups, Singed is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Singed is a decent counter for Gangplank. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Singed against Gangplank.
To truly master Singed to counter Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed usually gets a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Singed versus Gangplank build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Dead Man's Plate, and Riftmaker. When Singed combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Singed had an average winrate of 51.0% battling Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Gangplank as Singed, Singed players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Singed vs Gangplank matchups, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.0% win rate overall.
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