Urgot vs Gangplank — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Urgot against Gangplank · 52.8% win rate over 1,735 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Urgot is favoured — Urgot owns 6 of the 7 game windows to Gangplank's 1. Urgot wins 52.8% of games vs Gangplank in top lane (1,735 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1UrgotLevel 1 favours you before his barrel chains are online.
Level 2UrgotAt level 2 you lead as Q out-ranges his toss and punishes Parrrley.
Level 3UrgotLevel 3 stays yours since you can pop barrels to deny his combo.
Levels 4-5UrgotLevels 4-5 remain yours with W shred beating his poke trades.
Level 6UrgotAt 6 your R out-duels his non-combat Cannon Barrage ult.
First itemUrgotFirst item keeps you ahead in the 1v1 before crit scales.
Two+ itemsGangplankAt 2+ items GP flips — crit barrels and global R out-scale your shred.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Levels 1-2 are yours — you win the auto and Q trade before GP has barrels online, so press up and punish every Parrrley last-hit he reaches for.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Urgot vs Gangplank 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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