Illaoi with Gangplank
How to Synergize Illaoi and Gangplank
based on 176 Illaoi with Gangplank pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Gangplank
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gangplank helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Illaoi is paired with Gangplank, she gets a barely noticable drop in her complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Gangplank does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Illaoi plays with Gangplank on the same side, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Illaoi during team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Gangplank
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top companion for Illaoi that will no matter what be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a very typical companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same side as Illaoi, he decreases their win rate by -0.2% to 49.4%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Illaoi and Gangplank that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Illaoi and Gangplank together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Illaoi in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Illaoi and Gangplank synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gangplank with Illaoi are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.