Nami with Gangplank
How to Synergize Nami and Gangplank
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Nami Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Nami with Gangplank
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a large worsening in her 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 Nami perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami is an ally to Gangplank, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Gangplank provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with 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.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Gangplank on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Nami during teamfights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nami that will always be her top teammate. Yet, Gangplank is a not very good teammate for Nami. By locking into the same team as Nami, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 47.8%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Nami and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Nami. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing together, Nami players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nami and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your team very much tankyness. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nami to work well with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Nami and Gangplank synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other common builds. In fact, Nami had an average win rate of 47.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nami players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.8% winrate overall.
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