How to win lane as Gangplank against Locke · 49.46% win rate (1,286 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
He's a 125-range mana champ walking into your poke — win the lane at range and never gift the one blink window that flips it.
Track: Locke's Q — Ritual Nails (10–6s cooldown). The nail marks are his whole engine — without 2-3 stacks on you his blink-in barely dents; sidestep the recasts and punish the ten seconds of nothing.
Read from Gangplank's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Locke.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | Level 1 is even — his Q and passive chip match your early Parrrley poke, so neither side wins the opening exchanges outright. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Ashen Pursuit arrives on a flat 10s, but it is his only exit — his trade is one-way. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Even: your kegs balance his chip, and it is the nail marks that make his bite hurt. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Even — his Q falls toward 6s as he ranks it, so the nail tax ramps before your scaling does. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | Even at 6: Cannon Barrage's slow answers Purgatory, but his ult grounds and executes — stay above the floor or leave. |
| First item | Even / skill | Still even — Soul Ignition's true damage ignores your armour and refunds him health, so anti-heal decides long trades. |
| Two+ items | Gangplank | 2+ items is Gangplank — barrel combos, crit poke, and your global R outscale his single-target burst for good. |
This whole lane is even, and that is fine for you — his Q and passive chip match your Parrrley poke, so neither side spikes through level 5. Trade Parrrley for chip, stack gold and Silver Serpents, and use barrels defensively to keep his walk-up honest. At 6 your Cannon Barrage disengage directly answers his Purgatory execute, so hold R for the moment you are low.
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Gangplank's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Gangplank vs Locke 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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Nobody on paper — a 49.46% win rate over 1,286 games makes this a coin flip decided by play, not champion select.
Yes — Gangplank vs Locke is a genuine skill matchup: 49.46% win rate, and the favour swings window to window rather than being set at champion select.
No hard counter either way — the Gangplank vs Locke win rate is 49.46%, an even lane decided by execution.
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