Top · 939 games

Gangplank

Top · 91% of games Mid · 9%

Strongest when games end at 15–20 minutes (57%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+211 gold).

Win rate: 52.6%; ±3.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: S; #7 of 95
Pick rate: 4.9%; ban 6.7%
Games: 939; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Gangplank top wins 52.6% of 939 ranked games, rank 7 of 95 top champions (tier S). Most players finish Essence Reaver first, at about 11:36.

The build at a glance

What most Gangplank players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Essence Reaver 11:44 · 97% · 891 games

Boots

Plated Steelcaps 13:48 · 35% of games

Item 2

The Collector 18:23 · 32% · 245 games

Item 3

Infinity Edge 24:01 · 38% · 70 games

Item 4

Lord Dominik's Regards 28:48 · 68% · 23 games

Item 5 · late game

Serpent's Fang 33:12 · 19 of 81 games

Item 6 · late game

Endless Hunger 37:36 · 3 of 14 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision 18% of games · 56% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 70% of games · 55% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Ignite 79% of games · 54% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Parrrley first 97% of games · 53% wins Skill orders →

When Gangplank wins

Best when games end at 15–20′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′55% wins39% of games · 364

Lasts 25′ or more51% wins61% of games · 572

Lanes

Watch out for Vladimir, Jayce, Shen

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Gangplank games

First Baron: 88% against 32%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 32% 88% +56

First tower 32% 75% +44

Rift Herald 39% 72% +33

First dragon 41% 65% +24

First Voidgrubs 45% 61% +16

First blood 45% 59% +14

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Gangplank plays

More assists, more damage

What stands out (10% or more) against the average top laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

More assists a game6.3 against 5.2 · +20%

More damage a minute899 against 775 · +16%

More control wards a game0.78 against 0.68 · +15%

More share of team damage25% against 22% · +13%

Less damage to towers7394 against 8411 · −12%

About average: vision, minions, solo kills, deaths, time spent dead.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:42

Item 2done ~18:36

Item 3done ~24:00

Item 4done ~29:18

Item 5done ~34:18

Item 6done ~36:30

Most common full builds

Essence Reaver › The Collector › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Infinity Edge 52.8%36 games

Essence Reaver › Gluttonous Greaves › Lord Dominik's Regards › Infinity Edge 71.4%35 games

Essence Reaver › Plated Steelcaps › Immortal Shieldbow › Infinity Edge 52.9%34 games

Essence Reaver › Plated Steelcaps › Immortal Shieldbow › Lord Dominik's Regards 69.2%26 games

Essence Reaver › Plated Steelcaps › The Collector › Lord Dominik's Regards 52.2%23 games

Essence Reaver › Gluttonous Greaves › The Collector › Infinity Edge › Lord Dominik's Regards 56.5%23 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Hubris 100%5

Death's Dance 80%5

Immortal Shieldbow 57%96

Lord Dominik's Regards 56%95

Infinity Edge 51%103

Voltaic Cyclosword 51%37

The Collector 50%114

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion55.1%655

Doran's Shield + Health Potion42.2%83

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion49.3%69

Boots

Plated Steelcaps ~13:4857.8%325

Gluttonous Greaves ~14:3658.0%207

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~15:4248.1%108

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite53.6%744

Flash + Teleport48.4%184

Exhaust + Flash60.0%10

Skills

Max

W52.6%912

Max

W52.6%19

Start

W55.8%321

Start

Q51.3%273

Hard lanes

Watch out for Vladimir, Jayce, Shen

Easy lanes

Good into Fiora, Zaahen, Riven

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 25 of 35, wins 20 of them

Expected: what Gangplank's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (32)

Renekton 56% · 9

Mordekaiser 56% · 9

Quinn 44% · 9

Yorick 38% · 8

Lucian 63% · 8

Kennen 38% · 8

Illaoi 57% · 7

Sett 71% · 7

Ryze 43% · 7

Varus 14% · 7

Nasus 33% · 6

Sylas 20% · 5

Udyr 60% · 5

Poppy 100% · 5

Aurora 60% · 5

Corki 25% · 4

Vayne 75% · 4

Anivia 50% · 4

Kayle 50% · 4

Qiyana 75% · 4

Nocturne 25% · 4

Zeri 100% · 4

Trundle 100% · 4

Lissandra 50% · 4

Tristana 75% · 4

Heimerdinger 50% · 4

Nidalee 67% · 3

Cassiopeia 100% · 3

Zed 67% · 3

Kog'Maw 100% · 3

Azir 67% · 3

Rengar 0% · 3

Gangplank vs Jayce · 53 games · Solid sample

Gangplank does worse than expected here

40%winsexpected 54%

−514gold at 15′average +211

−12.3minions at 10′ahead or behind

17%in on first bloodsolo kills −0.57 a game

Gold lead against Jayce Gangplank's average lead

Against Jayce, Gangplank is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 68% of games, and still wins 39% of those. When ahead, Gangplank wins 41%.

Ahead at 15′41% wins17 games

Behind at 15′39% wins36 games

Full Gangplank vs Jayce page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Gangplank games: Rek'Sai, Lucian, Zeri, Bard

Enemy jungle Trouble

Rek'Sai39% · exp. 51% −1331 games

Sylas43% · exp. 55% −1235 games

Graves49% · exp. 55% −639 games

Easier

Qiyana61% · exp. 50% +1149 games

Viego62% · exp. 55% +739 games

Hecarim57% · exp. 53% +542 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Lucian40% · exp. 65% −2515 games

Galio37% · exp. 49% −1235 games

Zed41% · exp. 53% −1134 games

Easier

Ekko68% · exp. 50% +1919 games

Lissandra64% · exp. 49% +1522 games

Viktor66% · exp. 55% +1144 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Zeri43% · exp. 54% −1037 games

Viktor41% · exp. 52% −1117 games

Ezreal49% · exp. 56% −749 games

Easier

Kalista63% · exp. 52% +1143 games

Aphelios66% · exp. 56% +1056 games

Yunara62% · exp. 53% +958 games

Enemy support Trouble

Bard40% · exp. 54% −1443 games

Janna41% · exp. 51% −1034 games

Leona44% · exp. 51% −745 games

Easier

Camille82% · exp. 60% +2217 games

Soraka73% · exp. 54% +2015 games

Senna65% · exp. 50% +1517 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Gangplank dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.4). 39% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 40% for the average top laner. 53% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

39%involve the enemy junglerabout average (40%)

47%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (49%)

85%with no teammate nearabout average (83%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Gangplank dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

Ganks: 57% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 53% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 66% in your half of top lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average top laner

What kills Gangplank

Kind of death

Gangplank Average

Gank 39% (avg 40%)Collapse 8% (avg 9%)1-v-1 53% (avg 51%)

Who gets the kill

Gangplank Average

Bot laner 1% (avg 2%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 2% (avg 2%)Mid laner 6% (avg 7%)Top laner 66% (avg 63%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Gangplank Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 7:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Gangplank; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Gangplank wins fights

Wins fights in the top-side river, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.2 kills per death in the top-side river against 0.4 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.8 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.4 K/D 624 / 1438

Their half of top lane 1.1 K/D 751 / 684

The top-side river 1.2 K/D 122 / 98

Your jungle 0.8 K/D 46 / 55

Their half of bot lane 23.3 K/D 70 / 3

Your half of bot lane 10.0 K/D 60 / 6

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Gangplank wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 17% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 70% when Gangplank is there and 72% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 18:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 50%; for Gangplank it is 51% against 53%.

Gangplank

What most Gangplank players run

Best when games end at 15–20′

Watch out for Vladimir, Jayce, Shen

First Baron: 88% against 32%

More assists, more damage

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Vladimir, Jayce, Shen

Good into Fiora, Zaahen, Riven

Ahead at 15 against 25 of 35, wins 20 of them

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Enemies that cost Gangplank games: Rek'Sai, Lucian, Zeri, Bard

Teammates that change Gangplank's games

Dies about as often as most top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Gangplank

Ganks come at 3:00–5:00 and 7:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in the top-side river, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of top lane

Wins fights in their jungle, loses them in your half of bot lane