Gangplank with Ahri
How to Synergize Gangplank and Ahri
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Gangplank Ahri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Gangplank Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gangplank sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Ahri helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank is paired with Ahri, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Ahri doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played together with Ahri on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ahri. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ahri.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Ahri on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Ahri does a decent job of covering Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Ahri
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Ahri is a terrible ally for Gangplank. By locking into the same side as Gangplank, she lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 45.5%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Gangplank and Ahri that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ahri has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Ahri comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Gangplank and Ahri together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank to synergize with Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gangplank and Ahri synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Ahri than with most other common builds. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when playing alongside Ahri with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Gangplank and Ahri pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.5% winrate overall.
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