What To Do

Level 1 Gangplank has no pressure to out trade you, so use your vault aggessively. Careful if GP has ignite, some good gankplank players will flash auto you to get their passive MS and then Q you to death. Keep spacing after you vault and watch his positioning if he's running at you.

If Gangplank ever Qs you, retaliate with Vault + many Auto Attacks to win the trade.

Second wind + fleet and pots means that you will outsustain all of his poke, so the matchup becomes incredibly easy with this strategy.

Since most GPs run corrupting pot, it's very important to keep tab on if he has the pots active.

To check if he has a corrupting pot active, click on Gangplank's character and on the top-left of the screen, it will show the corrupting pot timer under his name.

Do NOT trade with Gangplank while he has corrupting pots active because these consumables grant him more damage while active.

Your goal in the early laning phase is to get GP to consume all 3 corrupting pots as soon as possible, and every time he uses one pot, back off until it wears off before you go in for trades.

Level 3 onwards the lane gets really fun. The most important interaction is to practice dodging his barrel explosing with your E, Vault.

To do so, when Gangplank explodes a barrel, he will try to throw one in front of you to hit a Double/triple barrel combo.

The key to time this correctly is when Gangplank explodes his first barrel, immeditately retaliate with Vault, and if timed correctly, Quinn will dodge the explosions from the other barrels.

Master this mechanic and GP has no chance in lane.

If he misses his Barrels, immediately run him down and launch your whole combo on his to get a big trade win.

Ideally, you want to land your Q on Gangplank in lane first, and if you land it, go in for a quick trade becasue Gangplank cannot retaliate with his Q since it is a lock on ability, which means you will get a free trade in lane.

Even if you are behind in this lane guys, when you get 1-2 items, you will be able to 1v1 GP ALWAYS because your crit build will provide enough damage to destroy him.

All you need are 2 items and you will out DPS him in 1v1s.

GP is a bad 1v1 champ, and you can think of him as a poke AD caster mage.

He is quite squishy for the most part, which means our crit build will do wonders later on.

Side Note: Gang plank can win level 1 if he plays it correctly.

The only GP player that I ever struggled with level 1 was Solarbacca, the best GP in the world, but most GP players wont do what he does.

If you see GP with ignite start, be careful of his level 1 cheese.

He will poke you with his Q, and then after the second Q he'll flash forward to AA you, and this AA is his passive so he gets MS from it to outrun you. When you flash, he will Q + ignite you for the kill.

Overall, you hard win level 1, but if the GP plays like this, just be a little mindful about your spacing & using your E early game

You win 1v1 with 2 items no matter what.