Gangplank with Amumu
How to Synergize Gangplank and Amumu
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Gangplank Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Amumu
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 Amumu Will Play
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
Gangplank Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Amumu. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Amumu helps Gangplank perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Amumu, he sees a little increase in his total damage output. This may indicate that Amumu supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played together with Amumu on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Amumu. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Amumu.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Amumu on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Amumu does a poor job of protecting Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Amumu
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no perfect synergy for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Amumu is a very typical ally for Gangplank. By playing on the same team as Gangplank, he drops their win rate by -0.7% to 47.9%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Gangplank and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Amumu comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Gangplank and Amumu together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much AD. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Amumu ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gangplank to work well with Amumu during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Gangplank and Amumu synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Amumu than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gangplank players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, 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 Amumu pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% win rate overall.
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