Warwick vs Gangplank — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Warwick against Gangplank · 50.48% win rate over 830 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Warwick is favoured — Warwick owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Gangplank's 2. Warwick wins 50.48% of games vs Gangplank in top lane (830 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1WarwickLevel 1 is yours — GP's poke kit can't stop your Blood Hunt dive and Q shove.
Level 2Even / skillLevel 2 is skill, decided by whether you close range or eat Parrrley poke.
Level 3WarwickLevel 3 favours you as you dash into melee and out-sustain his chip.
Levels 4-5WarwickLevels 4-5 stay yours — he can't zone you with Kegs once you're on top of him.
Level 6WarwickLevel 6 is yours: Duress locks him before he can detonate a barrel chain.
First itemGangplankAt first item GP flips it — empowered Q crits and barrel burst out-trade your dive.
Two+ itemsGangplankWith 2+ items Gangplank wins — Keg chains, crits, and Scurvy cleanse kite you out.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Level 1-2 you win — Gangplank pokes with Parrrley (Q) but has no melee answer, so Blood Hunt in and Q-heal to shove him off CS. Deny his barrel setups by staying on top of him.

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The full Warwick 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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