Vayne with Gangplank
How to Synergize Vayne and Gangplank
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Vayne Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Vayne vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vayne and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Vayne with Gangplank
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Vayne in LoL
The Vayne 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, Vayne sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gangplank helps Vayne perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Vayne tries to synergize with Gangplank, she gets a little increase in her total damage output. This could signal that Gangplank helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Vayne is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gangplank.
Additionally, when Vayne plays with Gangplank on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Vayne in team fights.
Synergies between Vayne and Gangplank
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Is Vayne better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect companion for Vayne that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. However, overall, Gangplank is a below average companion for Vayne. By locking into the same side as Vayne, he decreases their win rate by -1.4% to 48.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Vayne and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Vayne. That means you must be careful when arranging Gangplank teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Vayne and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Vayne to work well with Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vayne and Gangplank synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Gangplank with Vayne are given for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.