Cassiopeia vs Urgot — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Cassiopeia against Urgot · 45.19% win rate (374 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15

Verdict: Urgot is slightly favoured — Cassiopeia wins 45.19% of 374 games, and Urgot pressures 4 of the 7 stage windows in the plan below. Play it patient and win your windows.

At a glance

A DPS check he fails — poison every step-up, ground his approach, and E-spam him off the wave.

Track: Urgot's E — Disdain (16–14s cooldown). His flip engage — sidestep it and he has no way to start.

Do

  • Q-poison every last-hit attempt
  • Drop W Miasma on his approach path
  • E-spam only poisoned targets

Don't

  • Stand inside Disdain (Flip) range with W down
  • Spam E without poison and drain your mana
  • Push past river without vision

Runes & build vs Urgot

Start
Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions
First back
Tear of the Goddess + Dark Seal (≈800g)
First item
Seraph's Embrace / Liandry's Torment
Then
Rylai's Crystal Scepter
Boots
No boots — bank the gold into Zhonya's earlier
Runes
Conqueror (Precision): Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste, Last Stand · Sorcery: Manaflow Band, Transcendence · Shards: Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, Health

Favour timeline — the windows in Cassiopeia's game plan

Read from Cassiopeia's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Urgot.

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillDespite my ~850 Q out-ranging his ~490 Purge legs, his percent-HP W auto-shreds me the second I step in to confirm a Twin Fang, and his base sustain heals through my poke.
Level 2UrgotHis Purge leg pressure punishes every overstep and his sustain out-heals my one-ability DoT chip before I can stack poison for a Twin Fang reset.
Level 3Even / skillLevel 6 is the one contested stage: land Petrifying Gaze while he faces you — ideally on his Disdain commit — and the stun blanks his legs while you chain Twin Fang, but a whiffed angle and he flips you dead.
Levels 4-5UrgotOnce he has Disdain (E) up he trades on his terms: the flip drags me off my range advantage and onto his percent-HP legs, and his sustain out-banks my ramp.
Level 6Even / skillMy only swing window: R-on-the-flip blanks his Purge and lets me Twin Fang the poison — but burn it early or face the wrong way and he wins the all-in.
First itemUrgotHis Manamune/Cleaver spike plus percent-HP Purge legs out-grind my Liandry's ramp, and his E flip erases the distance my range edge needs.
Two+ itemsUrgotHe out-scales the duel: armor-stacked Urgot's leg DPS and Fear Beyond Death execute beat my squishy short-range poison late, and the fear stops me kiting out.

How to beat Urgot as Cassiopeia: the early game

Urgot owns levels 1-3 even though you actually out-range him — Noxious Blast (Q) reaches ~850 and his Purge (W) legs only fire at ~490, so you CAN poke him without walking in. The trap is the confirm: his W locks onto the nearest target the instant you step inside 490 for a Twin Fang, and his base sustain heals through your DoT chip. Your Miasma (W) grounding is close to wasted here — he has nothing to close the gap with before 6, so it is just a slow on a slow target. Poke from the tip of Q, shove the wave, and do NOT step up to prime a Twin Fang while his legs are loaded — every point of HP his W shaves is burst you cannot get back.

Hardest and easiest matchups for Cassiopeia in top lane

Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Cassiopeia's side, sampled July 2026.

Hardest

Easiest

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The full Cassiopeia vs Urgot report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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Common questions

Who wins Cassiopeia vs Urgot in top lane?

Urgot, slightly — Cassiopeia wins 45.19% of 374 games; winnable with the right plan.

Is Cassiopeia vs Urgot a skill matchup?

Mostly — Urgot has a small statistical edge (54.81% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.

Does Cassiopeia counter Urgot?

No — if anything Urgot has the slight edge (Cassiopeia wins 45.19%), though it stays close.

What runes does Cassiopeia take vs Urgot?

Cassiopeia takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Presence of Mind, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Sorcery secondary (Manaflow Band and Transcendence) vs Urgot.

What should Cassiopeia build vs Urgot?

Start Doran's Ring + 2 Health Potions and back for Tear of the Goddess + Dark Seal (≈800g). Build Seraph's Embrace / Liandry's Torment first, then Rylai's Crystal Scepter, with No boots — bank the gold into Zhonya's earlier.

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