Syndra vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Syndra
based on 1,249 Syndra vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Gangplank
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
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!
Syndra vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Syndra in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several vital Syndra vs. Gangplank matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champions. Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Syndra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Syndra often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes less damage than Gangplank. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Syndra or Gangplank?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Syndra usually wins when taking on Gangplank, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Syndra makes a good counter for Gangplank.
While Syndra does have a higher winrate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Syndra also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Syndra into Gangplankas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Syndra has a good 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Gangplank matchups, Syndra is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Syndra is a decent counter to Gangplank. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Syndra against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Syndra to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Syndra versus Gangplank build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Gangplank than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Syndra boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of beating Gangplank as Syndra, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Syndra vs Gangplank matchups, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gangplank as Syndra are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.