Gangplank vs Yone — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Gangplank against Yone · 56.51% win rate over 1,690 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Gangplank is favoured — Gangplank owns 4 of the 7 game windows. Gangplank wins 56.51% of games vs Yone in top lane (1,690 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillHe is even at level 1 and no bully, and Remove Scurvy cleanses his Q3 dash-knockup or R if he commits early.
Level 2Even / skillBoth of you are scaling here — trade with Parrrley and keep your low-HP kegs from being free-hit and denied.
Level 3Even / skillHis Q3-into-W cleave is his cleanest all-in before your kegs are up, but cleansing the knockup with W keeps it a coinflip, not a loss.
Levels 4-5GangplankYour second Parrrley rank and keg charge bring poke online — make him walk through the keg explosion to farm.
Level 6GangplankCannon Barrage adds zoning past 6 and cuts his E-rewind or R re-engage angle, tipping skirmishes to you.
First itemGangplankYour Sheen keg spike makes a chained detonation outburst his W shield and E-rewind health — force the all-in on your timing.
Two+ itemsGangplankChained kegs and global Cannon Barrage outscale his two-item duelist spike from a range his Q3 dash cannot answer.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Yone is even here, not a hard bully, and you hold the one tool that wrecks his combo: Remove Scurvy hard-cleanses CC, so when he Q3-dashes in (or ults with Fate Sealed) for the knockup-into-W cleave, you wash it off and he is left in melee range with nothing while his E body-rewind ticks down. The danger is your kegs early — they have long cooldowns and low HP, so never place a Powder Keg where he can free-hit it to deny you, and do not E into auto range to plant one while his Q is charged. Last-hit on the tip of Parrrley, concede a little CS since you have no waveclear yet, and know he cannot snowball this lane.

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The full Gangplank vs Yone 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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