Ezreal with Gangplank
How to Synergize Ezreal and Gangplank
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Ezreal Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ezreal and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Ezreal with Gangplank
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Ezreal in LoL
The Ezreal 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, Ezreal sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Ezreal perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Ezreal is paired with Gangplank, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Gangplank supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Ezreal is played with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Ezreal plays with Gangplank on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Ezreal in teamfights.
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Is Ezreal better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no one best companion for Ezreal that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a not very good ally for Ezreal. By locking into the same side as Ezreal, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 45.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad synergy between Ezreal and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Ezreal. That means you must be cautious when lining up Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Ezreal and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal to work well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Ezreal and Gangplank synergy build consist of Muramana, Frozen Heart, and Essence Reaver. When Ezreal included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, Ezreal players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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