Gangplank with Veigar
How to Synergize Gangplank and Veigar
based on 1,702 Gangplank with Veigar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gangplank Veigar Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Veigar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Veigar
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Veigar
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 Veigar Will Play
Veigar is extremely Mana and Cooldown Reduction dependent. Try buying items with these stats in order to increase the effectiveness of your passive and Baleful Strike.
Veigar is very fragile. It is valuable to select at least one summoner spell that can be used defensively.
Use Event Horizon to increase your chances of landing Dark Matter.
Gangplank Veigar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Veigar as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Veigar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Veigar, 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 Veigar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Veigar helps Gangplank perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank plays on the same team as Veigar, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Veigar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played alongside Veigar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Veigar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Veigar.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Veigar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Veigar does a poor job of protecting Gangplank during team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Veigar
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Veigar?
There is no one best ally for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Veigar is a below average companion for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Gangplank and Veigar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Veigar has a lower difficulty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Veigar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gangplank and Veigar together, you may not be providing your team very much cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Veigar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gangplank and Veigar synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Gangplank included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Veigar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gangplank had an average winrate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Veigar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gangplank players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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