Gangplank
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NA- Pick
- 2.0%picked in 58 of 2,915 games
- Ban
- 4.1%87 bans over 2,127 games, against 4.5% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,915 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 233,241 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournamentsOne clear gap between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.Draft
- How to play itDeathfire Touch, then Essence Reaver, The Collector, and Infinity Edge: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compTeam damage first: more damage than 100% of top laners.Damage
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
One clear gap between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked less often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 0.8%
- SoloQ
- 2.1%
How to play it?
Deathfire Touch, then Essence Reaver, The Collector, and Infinity Edge: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesDeathfire Touch67% · 7,433
SpellsFlash + Ignite87% · 9,700
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Essence Reaver
- The Collector
- Infinity Edge
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Team damage first: more damage than 100% of top laners.
- Team damagetop1%28% · top laners: 20%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- Damage
Like other top laners
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
What it is not
- Carries its own kills
- Little CC
- No poke
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 88 in lane, 76 in mid game and 93 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 97% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 88 of 100 among top laners680 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 76 of 100 among top laners934 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 93 of 100 among top laners1,267 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 97 of 100 among top laners+594 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 97 of 100 among top laners+1,075 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 28 of 100 among top laners581 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 37 of 100 among top laners51% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 41 of 100 among top laners27% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 6 of 100 among top lanersrank 6 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 22 of 100 among top laners0.5 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 100 of 100 among top laners28% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- Nautilus5 games—SoloQ: 52.0% · 563 g
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+2.1%9,679 picks of 466,476ban 4.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments0.8%36 picks of 4,328ban 4.1% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.4%9 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
8.5% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 1.5%G112 games of 817
- 2.1%G217 games of 817
- 2.5%G3+9 games of 354
Not enough series yet: published from 30.