TFT season 13: “Blow away” all opponents with Gangplank

Gangplank’s rise in TFT season 13

After a period of time since TFT season 13 was released, the game’s meta is leaning heavily towards “front to back” formations with extremely strong tanks and 1-2 back row mains. Typically for this style of play, squads using 6 Fighters, 6 Supervisors or 6 Pioneers are still in the leading group of the meta. With the experts at the LPL Super Server, they have researched ways to counter this meta and Gangplank has emerged as an extremely valuable choice.

Basically, Gangplank (backline) has the strong point of being able to deal damage to the opponent’s main force regardless of the resistance. The passive of this unit in ranged form will continuously attach explosive barrels to the opponent when Gangplank receives energy and when activated, it will deal damage. This helps Gangplank become extremely dangerous in long fights when the amount of explosive barrels attached to the opponent is extremely large and can knock out the opponent’s main force when activating the move. It is this unique way of operating Gangplank that has overcome many squads and received the trust of many players.

Building the Gangplank squad – Iron Cage Fighters in TFT season 13

In the early stages of the game, players should take advantage of cheap but quality units like Steb, Trundle or Maddie to maintain health. Maddie will now play the role of holding Gangplank’s equipment and the player can combine Infinity Sword and Shojin Spear early to ensure damage output. In addition, any Recycled champion combined with Trundle also helps players “cheat strength” with the ability to receive strong resistance items from a piece of Cloth Armor or Giant Belt.

After reaching level 7, players will stop buying experience to search and upgrade Gangplank. At that time, gamers should switch to using Conqueror champions like Swain, Darius, Draven as they both activate important systems with Gangplank and increase the amount of resources for the squad. This is quite important when many strong Song Xing generals and Iron Cage Fighters all have extremely high prices.

Players who own a 3-star Gangplank will need to consider leveling up as quickly as possible, especially to level 9. This will help add quality units like Vi, Jayce, Sevika or Elise to ensure Protect the team’s strength. Furthermore, Vi or Sevika are both extremely good carries when possessing equipment, this will significantly reduce the damage output for Gangplank and make the squad more difficult to counter.

Some notes when building a squad

By owning many key generals in the squad, players can be flexible in choosing unusual mutations in rounds 4-6. If you cannot find a suitable mutation for Gangplank, champions like Vi, Elise… can also be chosen to increase the surfing power of the front line. In addition, gamers should choose an upgrade that gives gold or experience to be able to level 9 quickly and find key units at the end of the game.