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Gangplank Build 26.22

Nobody has a higher skill ceiling than Gangplank, and it is all barrels. Chaining Powder Keg detonations with a well-placed Parrrley can chunk half a health bar from screens away, and his global ult presses every fight on the map at once. He is a slow starter who snowballs off gold and crits, so the early game is about surviving to that point. A strong pick at 51.2% and climbing this patch.

#30 of 112 top this patch · 2.1k games

Win rate51.2%+0.8Games2.1kPick rate4.3%Ban rate6.4%Last 8 patches−0.5 since 26.15Damage profilei

AP 18%AD 66%True 16%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 51.2% WR

Plated Steelcaps SkillsQ›E›W Runes

Shards

ClassicModernARAM Counter

173 champions

AatroxTopB50.5%AhriMidA51.5%AkaliMidB50.0%AkshanMidC49.2%AlistarSupportS52.6%AmbessaTopD47.4%AmumuJungleC48.7%AniviaMidC49.2%AnnieMidA52.2%ApheliosAD CarryC49.1%AsheAD CarryC48.9%Aurelion SolMidA52.5%AuroraMidA51.0%AzirMidB50.2%BardSupportD47.5%Bel'VethJungleS52.8%BlitzcrankSupportS52.7%BrandSupportC49.2%BraumSupportA51.5%BriarJungleB50.5%CaitlynAD CarryC47.8%CamilleTopA51.8%CassiopeiaMidC48.7%Cho'GathJungleA51.2%CorkiAD CarryB50.5%DariusTopB50.7%DianaJungleB50.0%Dr. MundoTopA51.8%DravenAD CarryA51.9%EkkoMidA52.0%EliseJungleC48.8%EvelynnJungleA51.0%EzrealAD CarryD46.1%FiddlesticksJungleB49.8%FioraTopB50.1%FizzMidB49.4%GalioMidA51.2%GangplankTopA51.2%GarenTopB50.6%GnarTopB49.9%GragasTopB49.8%GravesJungleC49.0%GwenTopA51.2%HecarimJungleA51.0%HeimerdingerTopA52.2%HweiMidA52.1%IllaoiTopB50.4%IreliaTopB49.8%IvernJungleA51.5%JannaSupportA51.5%Jarvan IVJungleC48.3%JaxTopB49.9%JayceTopC47.7%JhinAD CarryB50.5%JinxAD CarryB50.3%K'SanteTopC48.0%Kai'SaAD CarryB49.8%KalistaAD CarryB50.1%KarmaSupportD46.9%KarthusJungleC48.9%KassadinMidS53.1%KatarinaMidA51.7%KayleTopB49.9%KaynJungleB49.9%KennenTopA52.2%Kha'ZixJungleB49.8%KindredJungleA52.3%KledTopS53.5%Kog'MawAD CarryA52.0%LeBlancMidA52.1%Lee SinJungleC48.4%LeonaSupportA51.4%LilliaJungleA51.6%LissandraMidB49.8%LockeMidC48.4%LucianAD CarryC48.8%LuluSupportC49.1%LuxSupportC48.8%MalphiteTopA51.7%MalzaharMidC48.8%MaokaiSupportA51.8%Master YiJungleC49.2%MelMidD46.4%MilioSupportC48.1%Miss FortuneAD CarryC49.3%MordekaiserTopB50.0%MorganaSupportA50.8%NaafiriJungleA51.0%NamiSupportB50.6%NasusTopB49.6%NautilusSupportB49.9%NeekoSupportD47.8%NidaleeJungleA51.9%NilahAD CarryS+57.6%NocturneJungleB49.5%Nunu & WillumpJungleB49.9%OlafTopB50.1%OriannaMidD47.4%OrnnTopA51.2%PantheonTopA51.3%PoppySupportS53.0%PykeSupportB50.3%QiyanaJungleC48.2%QuinnTopD44.5%RakanSupportS53.4%RammusJungleS+55.6%Rek'SaiJungleS53.0%RellSupportS53.1%Renata GlascSupportB49.5%RenektonTopC48.3%RengarJungleB49.7%RivenTopC49.3%RumbleTopC49.1%RyzeMidD45.8%SamiraAD CarryC49.2%SejuaniJungleA52.2%SennaSupportB50.3%SeraphineSupportB49.5%SettTopA51.7%ShacoJungleB50.5%ShenTopS53.3%ShyvanaJungleS52.5%SingedTopB50.1%SionTopA51.3%SivirAD CarryA51.4%SkarnerJungleS54.0%SmolderAD CarryB50.0%SonaSupportA51.3%SorakaSupportA51.4%SwainSupportA51.6%SylasMidD47.6%SyndraMidB49.6%Tahm KenchSupportC48.6%TaliyahJungleB50.6%TalonJungleA51.7%TaricSupportA51.4%TeemoTopA51.1%ThreshSupportB50.5%TristanaAD CarryA51.0%TrundleTopD47.8%TryndamereTopA51.1%Twisted FateMidB49.9%TwitchAD CarryB50.4%UdyrJungleB49.8%UrgotTopB50.4%VarusAD CarryC48.9%VayneAD CarryB50.9%VeigarMidD47.7%Vel'KozSupportS+54.2%VexMidS52.9%ViJungleB50.6%ViegoJungleC48.7%ViktorMidC49.1%VladimirMidB50.8%VolibearTopA51.3%WarwickJungleA52.3%WukongJungleA52.2%XayahAD CarryS52.9%XerathMidA50.9%Xin ZhaoJungleA52.1%YasuoMidC48.3%YoneMidC49.0%YorickTopC48.6%YunaraAD CarryC48.8%YuumiSupportC48.5%ZaahenTopC49.1%ZacJungleA52.0%ZedMidC48.6%ZeriAD CarryA51.7%ZiggsAD CarryA52.4%ZileanSupportA51.0%ZoeMidS53.3%ZyraSupportA51.0%

LoL ClassicSee how Gangplank was built in the classic eraGangplank Classic Build

When Is Gangplank Strongest?

The early game is the peak, before the enemy team comes online, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Gangplank's win condition is scaling into a global threat, so farm his kegs and gold through the mid game, then use his barrel bursts and map-wide ultimate to swing fights he is not even standing in.

Game timeline · Gangplank drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end28:16

Ambush zone8:06–9:36 Power spike 11:36

14:27

11:36

14:27

19:17

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 64/100 · Even

Core 1/3 items

Gold ~5.6k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Plated Steelcaps · 14:27

Gangplank Item Build

Gangplank is a self-sufficient fighter who fights through his barrels rather than his fists, so the build stacks attack damage and crit to make each keg detonation an area nuke. The items exist to turn a well-placed barrel chain into burst that clears waves, wins skirmishes, and reaches across the whole map.

Standard loadout · Gangplank The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Blade×1

Health Potion×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Plated Steelcaps68% · 53.0%

Ionian Boots of Lucidity32% · 48.3%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.D

Death's Dance5757.9%G

Guardian Angel6357.1%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.V

Voltaic Cyclosword26159.8%Y

Youmuu's Ghostblade2958.6%L

Lord Dominik's Regards78852.0%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.O

Oracle Lens44356.7%F

Farsight Alteration85453.5%S

Stealth Ward75845.5%

Best Gangplank Runes

Deathfire Touch is the standard, and his harass pattern feeds it, every Parrrley and barrel tick chips at a target through a trade. He wins by wearing people down from a safe distance rather than committing, so the rune suits the ranged poke, and the rest keeps him healthy through a passive laning phase.

The pre-game page Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Precision · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Sorcery Primary

Deathfire TouchDamaging a champion with an ability burns them over time.

Nimbus Cloak74% · 51.6%

Transcendence71% · 51.2%

Scorch77% · 51.0%

Keystone plus three minors from Sorcery, two from Precision, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Precision Secondary

Cut Down65% · 51.7%

Legend: Haste51% · 50.6%

Stat shards Offense

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health+65 Health

Shards give +18Adaptive Force+65Health

Almost none of his threat exists until the items do, so build toward Essence Reaver into The Collector first. You want an early lead here, so punish your winning matchups fast. Once The Collector is up around 19 minutes, his barrel-plus-Parrrley bursts start deleting people from range, so play for that timing, bank your Silver Serpents, and skip the coinflip early trades.

Gangplank Skill Order

Powder Keg takes the level 1 point and Parrrley runs 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9, with the keg coming back for 8, 10, 12 and 13. Remove Scurvy holds the rank it took at 3 until 14, so the cleanse stays thin through laning.

Skill order · Gangplank R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›E

E›W

WMax Q first; E at level 1.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q24579max 9

W314151718max 18

E18101213max 13

R61116max 16

Gangplank Abilities

Health mid-fight comes from Remove Scurvy, which eats a lockdown and restores health in one bite. Trial by Fire quietly adds a burn to his melee strike every few seconds, chip damage running alongside the Parrrley gold everyone fixates on.

Abilities · Gangplankpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Trial by FirePassiveP

ParrrleyMax 1stQ

Remove ScurvyMax lastW

Powder KegMax 2ndE

Cannon BarrageUltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

ParrrleyPhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 2rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXDamage+30 per rank+100% ADlv 210lv 440lv 570lv 7100lv 9130Cost-5 per ranklv 250lv 445lv 540lv 735lv 930Constant at every rankCooldown4.5ssame at all ranks

Gangplank Base Stats

Base stats · GangplankPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD64+4.2AS0.658+3.2%MS345Range125HP630+114HP56+0.6Armor31+4.7MR32+2.05MP280+60MP58+0.7

Gangplank Matchups

Gangplank needs time and space to line up his kegs, so all-in divers who jump him before he can chain them and hard crowd control that interrupts his setup punish him. Immobile lanes that cannot stop his poke or dodge his barrels let him scale freely into a global menace.

Lane matchups · Gangplank click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs bruisers 01Avoid melee brawls early; barrel-slow them and poke with Parrrley.02Kite with Powder Keg zones; cleanse their gap-close crowd control.03Build armor and out-scale; chained barrels shred them in extended fights. Win rate by game lengthGangplank overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min56.0%20–28 min52.0%28–35 min49.4%Over 35 min50.0%

Early he folds to Rumble, Tryndamere, and Urgot, who run him down before his barrels come together, so freeze, farm, and get through the early game. Later he turns it around on Renekton, Irelia, and Akali, poking them out and pressuring their whole team with his global, so save the ult for cross-map plays once you are online.

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