Zac with Gangplank
How to Synergize Zac and Gangplank
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Zac Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Zac vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Zac with Gangplank
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gangplank helps Zac perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac plays on the same team as Gangplank, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gangplank does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played together with Gangplank on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Gangplank on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Zac in teamfights.
Synergies between Zac and Gangplank
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Is Zac better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Zac that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Gangplank is a very typical ally for Zac. By playing on the same team as Zac, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 51.1%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Zac and Gangplank that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Zac. That means you must be very careful when finding Gangplank teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these champions will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Zac and Gangplank together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of support. Make sure to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zac in order to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Zac and Gangplank synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Zac incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.1% winrate overall.
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