Gangplank vs Heimerdinger Counter Pick

Heimerdinger defends ground with deployables, and Powder Keg is the tool that removes them. Detonating a keg spreads the attack’s damage across everything in the area and slows it, which handles an H-28 G Evolution Turret without walking into its firing arc. Gangplank takes the matchup at 57.0% across 358 top games on patch 16.13.1.

• Frailty: 19 base armor and 558 HP rising to 90.4 and 2,343, against 31 armor and 630 HP rising to 110.9 and 2,568, means physical damage meets the resistance he is least able to stack.
• Range: 550 against 125 hands poke to Heimerdinger, though Parrrley is a targeted shot that plunders gold on kills, so income does not depend on winning trades.
• Control: CH-2 Electron Storm Grenade stuns on a direct hit and UPGRADE!!! empowers whichever spell follows, while Remove Scurvy cures crowd control effects and restores Health.

Hextech Affinity grants Move Speed near allied towers and his own turrets, so pushing him under structures returns the mobility edge Gangplank otherwise holds at 345 against 340. Cannon Barrage covers an area a defensive setup cannot relocate out of, and Trial by Fire adds burn on melee strikes once the gap has closed. Hextech Micro-Rockets converge on the cursor rather than a locked target, so stepping sideways while a keg is being placed turns his poke into the losing half of the trade.