Wukong with Gangplank
How to Synergize Wukong and Gangplank
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Wukong Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Gangplank
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong sees a very large drop in his 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 Wukong perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Wukong tries to synergize with Gangplank, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gangplank doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Wukong during teamfights.
Synergies between Wukong and Gangplank
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top champion pairing for Wukong that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Gangplank is a good teammate for Wukong. By being on the same team as Wukong, he raises their win rate by 1.8% to 51.2%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Wukong and Gangplank that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you should be careful when arranging Gangplank comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Wukong players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Wukong and Gangplank together, you may not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan 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 should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Wukong in order to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Wukong and Gangplank synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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