Gangplank with Soraka
How to Synergize Gangplank and Soraka
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Gangplank Soraka Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gangplank and Soraka
Tips for Playing as Gangplank with Soraka
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.
Advice to Understand How Soraka Will Play
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
Gangplank Soraka Synergy Stats
How to Play with Soraka as Gangplank in LoL
The Gangplank Soraka synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Soraka, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gangplank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Soraka. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Soraka helps Gangplank perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gangplank is paired with Soraka, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Soraka provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gangplank is played with Soraka on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Soraka.
Additionally, when Gangplank plays with Soraka on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Soraka does a poor job of protecting Gangplank in teamfights.
Synergies between Gangplank and Soraka
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Is Gangplank better when played alongside Soraka?
There is no ideal synergy for Gangplank that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Soraka is a terrible ally for Gangplank. By locking into the same team as Gangplank, she drops their win rate by -3.4% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Gangplank and Soraka that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Soraka has a much lower diffuclty than Gangplank. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Soraka comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Gangplank and Soraka together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Soraka ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gangplank in order to work well with Soraka during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gangplank and Soraka synergy build include Mortal Reminder, Navori Quickblades, and The Collector. When Gangplank combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Soraka than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gangplank boasted an average winrate of 45.2% helping carry Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Soraka with Gangplank are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.