Akali with Gangplank
How to Synergize Akali and Gangplank
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Akali Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Akali with Gangplank
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
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.
Akali Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Akali in LoL
The Akali Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Gangplank, she sees a small increase in her full damage output. This change may indicate that Gangplank supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Gangplank on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Akali in teamfights.
Synergies between Akali and Gangplank
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Is Akali better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal synergy for Akali that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Gangplank is a not very good companion for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Akali and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players need to be very careful when arranging Gangplank teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Akali and Gangplank together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akali to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Akali and Gangplank synergy build include Void Staff, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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