Gangplank with Xayah
How to Synergize Gangplank and Xayah
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Gangplank Xayah Synergy Summary
Best Gangplank vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Gangplank Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xayah helps Gangplank perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is paired with Xayah, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Xayah does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played alongside Xayah on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Xayah.
Moreover, when Gangplank plays with Xayah on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Gangplank in team fights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Xayah
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gangplank that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Xayah is a not very good teammate for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, she lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Gangplank and Xayah that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Xayah has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means Gangplank players don't need to be cautious when arranging Xayah comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gangplank players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Gangplank and Xayah together, you may not be granting your side enough AP. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Xayah ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Xayah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gangplank and Xayah synergy build consist of Essence Reaver, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Xayah than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gangplank had an average win rate of 46.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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