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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Gangplank Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Anivia helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is paired with Anivia, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Anivia helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Anivia.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Anivia on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Anivia does a poor job of protecting Gangplank in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gangplank that will always be his #1 synergy. However, Anivia is a very typical teammate for Gangplank. By being on the same side as Gangplank, she decreases their win rate by -0.1% to 48.5%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Gangplank and Anivia that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players need to be careful when lining up Anivia allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Gangplank and Anivia together, you may not be giving your team enough AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Gangplank to synergize with Anivia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to use in your Gangplank and Anivia synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and Navori Quickblades. When Gangplank incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Anivia than with most other common builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Gangplank players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gangplank and Anivia pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.5% win rate overall.
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