Azir with Gangplank
How to Synergize Azir and Gangplank
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Azir Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Azir vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Azir and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Azir with Gangplank
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Azir in LoL
The Azir Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Azir sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Azir perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Azir is an ally to Gangplank, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Gangplank helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Azir is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Moreover, when Azir plays with Gangplank on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Azir during team fights.
Synergies between Azir and Gangplank
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Is Azir better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best champion pairing for Azir that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, Gangplank is a not very good teammate for Azir. By playing on the same team as Azir, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 48.3%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Azir and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than Azir. That means Azir players don't need to be cautious when arranging Gangplank allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, Azir players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Azir and Gangplank together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir in order to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Azir and Gangplank synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir used at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other common builds. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 48.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Azir and Gangplank pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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