Gangplank vs Camille — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Gangplank against Camille · 50% win rate over 800 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Camille is favoured — Camille owns 3 of the 7 game windows to Gangplank's 2. Play it patient and win your windows. Gangplank wins 50% of games vs Camille in top lane (800 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillBoth of you are weak at level 1 — your barrel has a long cooldown and no chain yet, so just deny her last-hits and set the wave up rather than trading.
Level 2CamilleAt 2 her E-hookshot stun into the empowered Precision Protocol re-cast lands before a single keg can detonate, so she wins the short trade outright.
Level 3CamilleLevel 3 gives her the full E-Q-W combo with Tactical Sweep's true damage while your barrels still can't chain — last-hit safe and hold W for her stun.
Levels 4-5CamilleHer all-in cooldowns refresh faster than your keg chain at 4-5, so she keeps the trade edge until your Parrrley-keg poke comes online.
Level 6Even / skillCannon Barrage zones and adds dive threat but doesn't win the 1v1, so the duel sits even at 6 unless she E-walls in for an isolation.
First itemGangplankSheen/Trinity empowers Parrrley to detonate a full keg chain — that burst beats Tactical Sweep's heal and flips the lane tempo to you.
Two+ itemsGangplankYour mid-game keg detonations plus global R give you the tempo edge right after first item — cash it in fast, because she reclaims the duel once she hits two items.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-3 belong to Camille — your Powder Keg has a long early cooldown with no chain online yet, your base HP is low enough for her to free-hit, and you have no real waveclear, so a single E-hookshot stun into Precision Protocol's empowered second cast (true damage on the timed re-hit) and Tactical Sweep's outer-edge true damage chunks you before a keg can come up. Last-hit at the tip of Parrrley range and never step up to drop a barrel she can simply walk onto and pop with you next to it. Hold W (Remove Scurvy) for her E — cleansing the stun mid-combo, or right-click-cancelling it, is your only real out here.

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The full Gangplank vs Camille 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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