Gangplank with Garen
How to Synergize Gangplank and Garen
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Gangplank Garen Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Garen
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Gangplank Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Gangplank perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is an ally to Garen, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Garen does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Garen.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Garen on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Garen does a poor job of protecting Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Garen
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Garen?
There is no perfect ally for Gangplank that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Garen is a relatively poor teammate for Gangplank. By playing on the same side as Gangplank, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Gangplank and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be very careful when lining up Garen 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.
Playing on the same side, Gangplank players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Gangplank and Garen together, you will not be providing your team a lot of magical damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Garen ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Gangplank and Garen synergy build include Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and The Collector. When Gangplank bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other common builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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