Gangplank·Bot Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Gangplank Bot build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick First Strike as your keystone, followed by Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, as well as Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Essence Reaver as your first item, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity and Navori Quickblades. For your last 3 items, you should build The Collector, Lord Dominik's Regards and finish with Immortal Shieldbow. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 46.5% winrate over 198 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Gangplank Bot build would be to take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are First Strike as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Taste of Blood with Treasure Hunter in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Adaptive Force in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Essence Reaver, which you should build first, followed by Ionian Boots of Lucidity as your second item and The Collector as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Navori Quickblades, Lord Dominik's Regards and Immortal Shieldbow. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 37.1% win rate over 159 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Coup de Grace in the primary tree, and Triple Tonic with Future's Market in the secondary tree, as well as Adaptive Force, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Essence Reaver as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Navori Quickblades as a third item. You want to finish the build with The Collector, Lord Dominik's Regards and Bloodthirster. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 46.3% win rate across 54 matches played.

Situational Gangplank Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Gangplank build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.