Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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 highlight several influential Trundle vs. Gangplank counter stats that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gangplank..
Trundle normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Gangplank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable 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, Trundle usually wins when trying to fight Gangplank, with a 55.0% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes a great counter for Gangplank.
While Trundle does have a much higher win rate compared to Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Trundle also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Trundle into Gangplank.
Moreover, Trundle also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Gangplank matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Trundle is a great counter to Gangplank. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Gangplank.
To learn all of the intricacies of Trundle in order 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Trundle versus Gangplank build include Thornmail, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Trundle incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Gangplank than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 55.0% when playing against Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Gangplank as Trundle, Trundle players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Approach Velocity, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Trundle vs Gangplank matchups, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.0% win rate overall.
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