Gangplank with Jhin
How to Synergize Gangplank and Jhin
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Gangplank Jhin Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Jhin Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Jhin
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Jhin
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 Jhin Will Play
Your ultimate deals significantly less damage to enemies with full health. Look to pick off weakened targets as they run away.
Deadly Flourish has incredible range. When approaching a fight be sure to look ahead for enemies that could be rooted.
You can still cast your spells while reloading. Use them to fill the down time.
Gangplank Jhin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jhin as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Jhin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jhin, 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 Jhin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Jhin helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gangplank is paired with Jhin, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may signal that Jhin helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Jhin on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Jhin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Jhin.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Jhin on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Jhin does a poor job of protecting Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Jhin
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Jhin?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gangplank that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Jhin is a decent ally for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, he raises their win rate by 2.1% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Gangplank and Jhin that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Jhin has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Jhin teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Gangplank players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gangplank and Jhin together, you probably will not be giving your other allies much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Jhin ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gangplank in order to synergize with Jhin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Gangplank and Jhin synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Navori Quickblades. When Gangplank bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Jhin than with most other common builds. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Jhin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Jhin with Gangplank are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.