Gangplank with Graves
How to Synergize Gangplank and Graves
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Gangplank Graves Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Graves
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Gangplank Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Graves helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank tries to synergize with Graves, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Graves doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played alongside Graves 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 Graves.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Graves on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of protecting Gangplank during team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Graves
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Graves is a relatively poor teammate for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 47.5%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Gangplank and Graves that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Gangplank players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gangplank and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Gangplank and Graves synergy build include Bloodthirster, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 runes that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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