Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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 Alistar 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, Alistar 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 worsening shows that Gangplank helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar tries to synergize with Gangplank, he gets a small decrease in his total damage output. This could signal that Gangplank does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together 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.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Gangplank on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Gangplank does a poor job of covering Alistar in teamfights.
There is no top companion for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a good teammate for Alistar. By locking into the same team as Alistar, he increases their win rate by 1.3% to 50.7%. This shows that there is pretty good synergy between Alistar and Gangplank that results in them performing better together than alone.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you must be very careful when arranging Gangplank comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Alistar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by grouping Alistar and Gangplank together, you will not be giving your team a lot of AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Alistar to pair well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to build first in your Alistar and Gangplank synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 50.7% when playing alongside Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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