Gangplank with K'Sante
How to Synergize Gangplank and K'Sante
based on 176 Gangplank with K'Sante pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gangplank K'Sante Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Gangplank K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that K'Sante helps Gangplank perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as K'Sante, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that K'Sante doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that their participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played together with K'Sante 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 synergisticly with K'Sante.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with K'Sante on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of protecting Gangplank in team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and K'Sante
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gangplank that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, K'Sante is a very bad ally for Gangplank. By being on the same side as Gangplank, they decreases their win rate by -5.4% to 43.2%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Gangplank and K'Sante that results in them performing worse together than alone.
K'Sante has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be careful when lining up K'Sante teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, Gangplank players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gangplank and K'Sante together, you will not be giving your team a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your K'Sante ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to pair well with K'Sante during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Gangplank and K'Sante synergy build include Essence Reaver, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of K'Sante than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 43.2% when playing alongside K'Sante with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Gangplank players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.2% winrate overall.
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