Jax with Gangplank
How to Synergize Jax and Gangplank
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Jax Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Jax with Gangplank
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Jax in LoL
The Jax Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Jax sees a very large drop in his 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 Jax perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax tries to synergize with Gangplank, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Gangplank doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played with Gangplank 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 synergisticly with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Gangplank on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Jax in team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Gangplank
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Is Jax better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no ideal synergy for Jax that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a relatively poor teammate for Jax. By being on the same side as Jax, he drops their win rate by -2.0% to 48.8%. This proves that there is a negative synergy between Jax and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Jax. That means Jax players need to be cautious when lining up Gangplank allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Jax and Gangplank together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of support. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold 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
To truly master Jax in order to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Jax and Gangplank synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jax used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Jax boasted an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Jax and Gangplank pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% win rate overall.
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