Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gangplank helps Tristana perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Tristana is an ally to Gangplank, she gets a little drop in her complete damage output. This change may signal that Gangplank does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Gangplank on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Tristana plays with Gangplank on the same team, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Tristana during team fights.
There is no top companion for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical companion for Tristana. By locking into the same team as Tristana, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.1%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Tristana and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Tristana and Gangplank together, you will not be giving your side enough support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to work well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Tristana and Gangplank synergy build include Rapid Firecannon, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 48.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Tristana and Gangplank pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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