Maokai with Gangplank
How to Synergize Maokai and Gangplank
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Maokai Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Gangplank
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai sees a very large drop in his 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 Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Maokai is an ally to Gangplank, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may demonstrate that Gangplank does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Maokai plays with Gangplank on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gangplank does a decent job of protecting Maokai in team fights.
Synergies between Maokai and Gangplank
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect companion for Maokai that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 0.2% to 52.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Maokai and Gangplank that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players must be careful when arranging Gangplank allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Although, by bringing Maokai and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gangplank ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai in order to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Maokai and Gangplank synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Maokai had an average win rate of 52.8% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gangplank with Maokai are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.