Gangplank with Aurelion Sol
How to Synergize Gangplank and Aurelion Sol
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Gangplank Aurelion Sol Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Aurelion Sol Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Aurelion Sol
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Aurelion Sol
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 Aurelion Sol Will Play
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
Gangplank Aurelion Sol Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aurelion Sol as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Aurelion Sol synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aurelion Sol, 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 Aurelion Sol. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aurelion Sol helps Gangplank perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Aurelion Sol, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Aurelion Sol helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played together with Aurelion Sol 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 Aurelion Sol.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Aurelion Sol on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Aurelion Sol does a poor job of covering Gangplank in team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Aurelion Sol
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Aurelion Sol?
There is no top companion for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Aurelion Sol is a good teammate for Gangplank. By being on the same side as Gangplank, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 49.9%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Gangplank and Aurelion Sol that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Aurelion Sol has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Aurelion Sol comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Gangplank players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gangplank and Aurelion Sol together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Aurelion Sol ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gangplank to synergize with Aurelion Sol during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Gangplank and Aurelion Sol synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Aurelion Sol than with most other common builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Aurelion Sol with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip 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 builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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