Shyvana with Gangplank
How to Synergize Shyvana and Gangplank
based on 694 Shyvana with Gangplank pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Gangplank
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana 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 worsening shows that Gangplank helps Shyvana perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana plays on the same team as Gangplank, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage dealt. This change could indicate that Gangplank does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played 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 with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Shyvana plays with Gangplank on the same side, she on average receives more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Gangplank
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect ally for Shyvana that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical companion for Shyvana. By being on the same team as Shyvana, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Shyvana and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be very careful when enlisting Gangplank teammates to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Shyvana and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Shyvana and Gangplank synergy build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Shyvana had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Shyvana players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Shyvana and Gangplank pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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