Katarina vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Katarina
based on 2,070 Katarina vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Gangplank
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Katarina vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several valuable Katarina versus Gangplank counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gangplank. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gangplank. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Katarina or Gangplank?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when facing off against Gangplank, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Katarina makes a good counter to Gangplank.
While Katarina does have a higher winrate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Katarina also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Gangplankas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Gangplank matchups, Katarina is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Katarina is a decent counter to Gangplank. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Katarina against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Gangplank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gangplank. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Katarina versus Gangplank build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Gangplank than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 52.0% when playing against Gangplank with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Gangplank as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Katarina vs Gangplank clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.0% winrate overall.
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