Zed with Gangplank
How to Synergize Zed and Gangplank
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Zed Gangplank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Zed with Gangplank
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Zed perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed tries to synergize with Gangplank, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gangplank does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gangplank. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Additionally, when Zed plays with Gangplank on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Zed during team fights.
Synergies between Zed and Gangplank
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Is Zed better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Zed that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Gangplank is a not very good companion for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 45.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Zed and Gangplank that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you need to be careful when lining up Gangplank allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zed and Gangplank together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of support. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 truly master Zed to synergize with Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zed and Gangplank synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gangplank than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
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