Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
The stats provided here emphasize some influential Urgot against Gangplank counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gangplank..
Urgot often has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Gangplank. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Urgot usually wins when playing against Gangplank, with a 53.4% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes a great counter to Gangplank.
While Urgot does have a higher winrate than Gangplank, when facing one another, Urgot also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Urgot into Gangplankas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Urgot has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Gangplank matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Urgot is a great counter for Gangplank. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Urgot against Gangplank.
If you would like to truly master Urgot in order to counter Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Gangplank. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Urgot versus Gangplank build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Urgot used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Gangplank than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Urgot had an average winrate of 53.4% when playing against Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Gangplank as Urgot, Urgot players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Urgot vs Gangplank counters, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.4% win rate overall.
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