Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
The Lissandra 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, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Lissandra perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Gangplank, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gangplank provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Lissandra plays with Gangplank on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Lissandra in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lissandra that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a good teammate for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, he increases their win rate by 2.5% to 52.0%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Lissandra and Gangplank that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Lissandra. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Lissandra players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Lissandra and Gangplank together, you will not be providing your team much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Lissandra to synergize with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Lissandra and Gangplank synergy build include Malignance, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Lissandra and Gangplank pairings, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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