Hwei with Gangplank
How to Synergize Hwei and Gangplank
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Hwei Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Hwei and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Hwei with Gangplank
Calm down, breathe, and focus.
Each stroke requires precision and intention.
Advice to Understand How Gangplank Will Play
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.
Hwei Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Hwei in LoL
The Hwei Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Hwei sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Hwei perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hwei tries to synergize with Gangplank, they observes a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Gangplank provides protection for them to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Hwei is played with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Hwei plays with Gangplank on the same team, they usually takes a little more damage than when they plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Hwei in team fights.
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Is Hwei better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Hwei that will always be their #1 ally. However, overall, Gangplank is a terrible teammate for Hwei. By being on the same side as Hwei, he lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 42.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Hwei and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than Hwei. That means Hwei players don't need to be very careful when arranging Gangplank teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Hwei and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your team much engage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Hwei in order to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Hwei and Gangplank synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Hwei combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Hwei boasted an average win rate of 42.4% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.4% winrate overall.
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