Shaco with Gangplank
How to Synergize Shaco and Gangplank
based on 1,928 Shaco with Gangplank pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Gangplank
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco 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 worsening shows that Gangplank helps Shaco perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Gangplank, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Gangplank helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco 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 with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Gangplank on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
Synergies between Shaco and Gangplank
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top ally for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a relatively poor ally for Shaco. By playing on the same side as Shaco, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.6%. This demonstrates that there is a bad bond between Shaco and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be careful when finding Gangplank teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Shaco and Gangplank together, you may not be providing your team very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Shaco and Gangplank synergy build include Bloodsong, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.6% win rate overall.
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