Gangplank with Gragas
How to Synergize Gangplank and Gragas
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Gangplank Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Gangplank Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gragas helps Gangplank perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is paired with Gragas, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Gragas helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Gragas on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Gangplank during teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Gragas
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no perfect ally for Gangplank that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Gragas is a good teammate for Gangplank. By playing on the same side as Gangplank, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 50.6%. This signals that there is a good synergy between Gangplank and Gragas that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Gragas comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by aligning Gangplank and Gragas together, you will not be granting your other allies a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to work well with Gragas during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Gangplank and Gragas synergy build include Bloodthirster, Essence Reaver, and Navori Quickblades. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gragas than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Gragas with this build.
To have the best chance 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gangplank and Gragas pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.6% winrate overall.
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