Threat level: Hard Suggested rune: PTA Ahri's pretty great against Urgot due to her E. Charm will interrupt E if timed incorrectly and Urgot doesn't really function as a champion if he's unable to use his E. Generally speaking though Ahri lacks the significant enough damage to deal with Urgot in any lethal manner. Play to the side of your waves, let Ahri throw out her abilities on the wave, let her land a pointless charms . As soon as she wastes this ability, you need to be alert as you now have a kill window. Immediately, regardless of Ahri's HP slam your E flash combo sub -6 and she'll die.  Ahri's ultimate makes her unkillable, unless you're incredibly ahead, as soon as you try to combo her. She can just ult away and you won't benefit because you're trading a 5-minute cooldown for a 120-second one.

Threat level: Easy Suggested rune: PTA Akali is an assassin, assassins are Urgot's easiest class matchup. The reason Akali is considered easy is because she can never E onto Urgot. The reason she's unable to do this is because E's becomes guaranteed if Akali E 2's onto Urgot You can also grab Akali straight out of her shrowd, if you run Oracle lens you can see where she is within her shrowd and grab her out of it, hold your in the middle of the shrowd even if she's invisible, as soon as she reveals you'll automatically start damaging her when she's going for chip damage with her Explaining spacing against Akali's Q https://imgur.com/a/UceRXDJ It's worth mentioning a trick Akali can do. When is level 6 she'll have her ultimate, if she combines R after her E she can reposition against Urgot E. So if you're low and Akali engages onto you, use your E backwards. She will most likely go behind you, if you hit the E she's likely dead.

Threat level: Very Hard Suggested rune:  Urgot struggles greatly against Akshan but there's definitely ways for Urgot to pilot this lane. Early game Akshan has a complete advantage, you need to give up level 1 and probably level 2 and set up for level 3 in the lane instead of bothering to contest. Akshan takes bone plating, so you need to poke it off him by hitting him with a Q. Once you've taken the bone plating, you want to let Akshan use his three-hit passive. This gives him a small shield for a small amount of time but it's important you get it out of the way, you'll get chunked a reasonable amount but it's necessary. Once Akshan has no bone plating and his passive is on cooldown, you can delete him with your full combo. There's one thing you can do which is quite interesting though. You can go  Prowlers claw. It's incredible against Akshan because his E get's blocked by your character model if you go Prowlers. It slams your body into the enemy, so just wait for Akshan to E, use your Prowlers and he won't get any damage or value from it and you'll win a trade probably getting a kill in the meanwhile.

Threat level: Unplayable Suggested rune: PTA

Dodge, there's nothing you can do in this matchup.

Threat level: Medium Suggested rune: PTA

Annie's auto range is oppressive, the way you play against Annie is by letting her auto attack you.  Urgot starts D shield while taking Second wind,, stand behind your ranged minions and watch Annie walk up to you and auto-attack you once, she'll draw the aggro of the entire wave and you'll win trades as Annie givse you insane regeneration when taking poke damage, she won't have any regeneration apart. Level 2 she's set up for your full combo to die if she's fallen for the bait, if she hasn't been poking you down then just hold off until level 3 or whenever you're confident you can pull the trigger. After you've used your cooldowns you can still interact with her as Urgot's E buffers Annie's stuns. Annie relies on using 4 abilities to build up her passive stun, as soon as you see the bar under her health bar stack up 4 times, just cast your E at her when she stuns, you'll flip and proceed to delete her, she does have MS boost in her kit so if she's smart she'll use this to dodge your  E.

Threat level: Medium Suggested rune:  PTA Aurelion doesn't play for laning phase, if he does play for the laning phase then this matchup is incredibly easy rather than medium. The issue with Aurelion is his incredible roaming potential, he's got good wave clear and great roaming potential.  Urgot on the other hand is one of the slowest champions in league of legends. So to answer his roaming, you should permanently push the wave, you need to make him lose resources for roaming, if he plays the lane you can buffer star surge with  E. He's fairly tanky because he's not your ordinary mage, he's a battlemage like Diana and Sylas.

Rushing hullbreaker is a potential strategy vs Aurelion if he does roam excessively

Threat level: Hard Suggested rune: PTA At all points of the game Azir wins trades against you. You cannot do your standard combo even early levels because Azir doesn't ever get into range, to begin with, if he does ever get into range he has a dash which he can do backwards, if you miss your E ever, you are dead.



In this matchup, I'm confident enough in positioning around his soldiers, so I start cull. I also don't take ignite, I opt for teleport. It's important to understand your purpose in the game and your purpose in this game will be roaming, shove waves, teleporting around the map, boot rush into roams, getting out of laning as fast as possible as it's a bit uninteractive for you.

Threat level: Extreme Suggested rune: PTA Your second worst matchup is Cassi.  Miasma completely disables your E, you can dash THROUGH it but if she ever wants to force a play on you, all she has to do is  W, spam a bunch of  E's then presses Q  and proceed to empty her mana bar into you and also your healthbar which can overkill you almost twice over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHVqqOWz4aY I highly encourage you to watch this VOD, skipping through it to where I'm finding kill windows, understanding what I have to drop, there are points in this game where I'm 5/0 against her and she's 0/5 but she's still running me down from 100% HP. This champion is god damn insane and it's too hard to explain how to play against it, so watch me instead.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA

Diana should never be able to play the lane or the game. Urgot has such pressure on Diana constantly due to the range difference, she should be permanently farming with her Q . if Diana ever walks up, you can be as aggressive as you want at any point of the game, you do not need to use your full combo on her in burst windows, in fact, I actively encourage not killing her early game because she'll be so abused under tower she'll be dropping all minions. In the mid-game, you need to be a little bit more patient with your E  . If Diana marks you by hitting you with her Q she can use her dash twice. Let her hit Q then let her do her first dash of E, and then hold your W on her, she'll dash behind you afterward as that's how you do the most DPS on Diana, you use your E and then your full combo and she dies.

Threat level: Easy Suggested rune:  Ekko is an assassin, assassin's are Urgot's best matchup. Ekko shouldn't ever be able to walk up to the minion wave to auto-attack them, so what you do against Ekko is you let him shove the wave with his Q, don't use any of your abilities on the wave, just last hit with auto attacks and use your abilities on Ekko if he dares walk up instead, once he's built up a minion wave around your turret, that's when you want to be very aggressive, you need to freeze the wave and force him to only farm the wave with his Q. You'll end up with around 50 CS advantage if you do this,  can't unfreeze this wave independently and in lower elos they'll probably just give up and roam, as soon as they roam immediately shove the wave using your W, once crashed, reset, pick up Cull and rinse repeat.  also cannot use his E on you. If he does he's set himself up to be E and one-shot. If he's at all damaged before you've landed your E beyond level 6, you can do enough damage due to having ignite before he's able to react with his R.

Threat level: Easy Suggested rune:  Fizz is an assassin,  Urgot's best class matchup is assassins.  Urgot can't really die to Fizz individually. Fizz will choose to farm out this lane whenever possible but since he's a squishy melee champion it's incredibly difficult for him to farm unless you allow him to, the only reason this matchup isn't in very easy is that Fizz usually has jungles prioritizing around his lane, especially at level 6. Fizz's sets himself up to be E'd. It's very choreographed where he's going to land, if he's using it as a disengage tool then you've made Fizz obsolete for around 20 seconds, if he's using it within range of you then he's set himself up to be oneshot combo'd. Level 6 onwards is the only time this lane can become volatile, a popular combo is ulting then runs you down with their jungle but if their not playing around mid then you bully him your entire existence. You can also buffer his knockup on his ultimate with E by using it as the shark comes out from under the map.

Threat level: Very easy / Medium Suggested rune: PTA  Galio's play with two play styles; right now either aftershock or Predator. If they're running Aftershock you've won the game going into the lobby, the game becomes a little bit more difficult if they're running Predator though. In both matchups, the laning phase is as simple as using your E as they use their E. You'll win the order of ability priority and just delete them after that. Galio doesn't have significant enough damage to deal with Urgot, so make sure you're walking him down under tower when he doesn't have any of his abilities because he's not a champion without them. The reason Predator is more intimidating is because it just allows Galio to do whatever the hell he wants, he plays with his jungler, ganks toplane and bot lane in the blink of an eye, permanent presence in other lanes while you're not able to achieve much in your own lane due to him being able to return mid quickly due to  Galio rushing boots. If they have Predator I rush Hullbreaker even though it's usually garbage mid, I also run Demolish over Overgrowth. You play for the tower rather than laning, then you swap out your bot lane once you've taken tower and go take bot tower and play a stereotypical split pusher.

Threat level: Medium

Suggested rune: PTA



Even though Irelia is listed as easy, it's a skill-based matchup. Irelia needs to get her minion stacks to function as a champion and it's Urgot's job to deny it. If you know Irelia is going to Q a minion, you can E the minion, denying her the stack and her Q from resetting since she won't hit the minion as you grab her out of the animation, from here you can straight run her down.



If you miss E you're probably going to die, likes to go BORK first item and when she has BORK she has surprisingly high duelling potential against you, so don't be confident just because you're ahead, as long as you land your E and stick to the build paths you'll be absolutely fine with her. You don't need to go out of your way to make these flashy plays since Irelia has much better scaling than Urgot. Try not to be nervous about her, she's a very flashy and intimidating champion but once you master how to prevent her stacks with your E it's freelo.



Once she has Divine sunderer she becomes much together to kill though.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA At no point in the game can Kassadin play against you. Kassadin is a squishy melee champion who you should zone from CSing the entire game, if he ever walks up to you E him and immediately, early levels he cannot escape you even by flashing away, just follow his flash with your own and it's a death sentence. Level 6 this matchup is still one-sided but it becomes trickier to get kills on him, so you don't play for kills since he can just jump away with his ultimate, it should be said that there are some hilarious interactions you can do against him like this. He scales well but you scale better, invalidate him in team fights by zoning him, some Kassadin's like to do an early armor build involving Frozen heart but it's useless against Urgot because W has a fixed attack speed. You also build Black cleaver as core, so the more armor he stacks the more value you get.

Threat level: Easy Suggested rune: PTA Katarina's champion with an extremely high skill requirement, regardless if you disagree. The issue with that is most league players aren't talented, so Kataraina's complex kit becomes very trivial especially in lower elos. Katarina's Q  is her core ability and the way she farms the most, her W also leaves an AOE on the ground for her passive.

This is when Katarina usually griefs against Urgot. Urgot doesn't really care about the damage Katarina does because it's usually never enough, so all Urgot has to do is sit on these daggers and Katarina will feel safe to do some chip damage by dashing to the dagger. Once she's dashed to the dagger, she's dead. Urgot uses his E and immediately empties his full combo into Kat . At any point in the game if Kat uses her dash, she dies.

Threat level: Extreme Suggested rune:  PTA / Fleet Urgot cannot do anything to LB.  Urgot's E has cast time behind it. Urgot is only allowed to use this ability is either reactionary or defensively, the idea is you go for minions when she uses her dash and then you respond to it with E but ehe cast time onE  is just too long, by the time you've casted it LB has already dashed back from her distorion. She has longer range, good poking down ability and uninteractive onesided gameplay. The best strategy is to just bunker down, shove the waves, use E for shielding, reset early game so you can buy cull. You'll start Dorans shield while taking second wind in your runes, you'll never thrive in this lane unless for some reason LB dashes into your E. You do scale better especially into team fighting, so brick walling against LB is valuable in itself, later in the game you'll be able to one-shot her. Be mindful of her passive as when she drops to low HP, you'll lose temporary targeting on her and she can be very slippery, you will have auto-targeting on the correct clone though.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA Urgot should never die to Lissandra, she lacks the damage individually to do anything to you. Her dash is able to be interrupted by Urgot's E. Lissandra's vary in playstyles though, some versions are easier than others. Some will run Aftershock which makes them slightly better against Urgot. If they're the Electrocute variant then you can just delete them whenever you want, she's relatively low range she doesn't have the bully identity control mages have, super easy matchup as long as there's not too much jungle interferance

Threat level: Easy Suggested rune: PTA

Lux is a long-range mage which is usually good against Urgot but Lux doesn't have any significant damage, Lux likes to aim her E slightly behind you as most people would walk away from the ability, the solution to this is walking forward. If she roots you with her Q then E forward at her, through the root and you'll grab her, if she has barrier then she can survive your combo but if she doesn't then she's dead, lux is pathetically weak against Urgot

Threat level: Very hard Suggested rune: PTA Malzahar is anti-gameplay. You cannot do anything in this lane because Malz doesn't do anything as a champion, he'll sit under his tower, use his abilities on the wave, wait until level 6 and then run around the map and ult people. This isn't even a matchup but he just you on the map.

Threat level: Very hard Suggested rune: PTA / Fleet Neeko's clone ability completely counters Urgot. You cannot use your E aggressively or she'll launch her clone and block the grab, then setting yourself up to get combo'd by her. She can also block your ultimate with her clone, early base for cull is mandatory, incredibly hard matchup and occassionally they take barrier making this matchup even worse.

Threat level: Very hard Suggested rune: PTA

Orianna is a control mage, control mages are Urgot's worst match up. Orianna has great abilities which are specifically good against Urgot.  W does a big chunk of damage alongside slowing, if she casts it on herself, it grants a chunk of movement speed which is great for dodging Urgot's E. Orianna's ultimate also interrupts your E completely if timed correctly. So, can't exist against Orianna due to having superior ranged poke, he can't use his E offensively since she'll just movement speed boost herself away, he can't use his E + Flash aggressively beyond level 6 even more due to R interrupting, how do you play?  E + Flash + Ignite sub 6 and PRAY it works. Orianna usually runs biscuits, timewarp tonic so killing her is near impossible but at least isn't too common. Definitely one of your hardest matchups.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA Seraphine can't damage you, your wave clear is better, your champion damage is better, you're more useful in teamfights. Seraphine just doesn't function against Urgot. To mostly exploit something like Seraphine rush tiamat and start shoving the wave on cooldown with  W If Seraphine is ever in E range without her barrier, she's dead. Go invade the enemy raptors, wolves, gromp, don't bother going as deep as krugs as toplaners usually are more down to sabotage their lane with roaming as the role is useless. You can buffer all her stuns with E, including her charm from her ultimate.

Threat level: Very Easy

Suggested rune: PTA



Sylas is a melee champion, being a melee champion basically solves Urgot's main weakness of being kited or outranged, on top of being very favourable due to the range difference, Syla's core abilities are all bufferable by E. Sylas E pulls into anything he targets, so when you see Sylas use this ability, all you have to do is E and delete.



E has priority, you'll flip him and then you'll win the trade, there's no point in the game where Sylas should beat Urgot.



A trick Sylas mains do is they use their E, then use their W to bait you into using your E , hold your E until you can see the chains or hear the visual queue, this is the only way you lose this matchup.

Threat level: Hard Suggested rune: PTA / Fleet Playing against Syndra is playing dance dance revolution, the matchup isn't hard it's just very intense if you want to win and pilot it successfully because you need to be dodging every skillshot. What  Syndra's like to do is whenever you cast your auto-attack on a minion, they'll use their Q, their poking ability. It's guaranteed poke from them so what you need to do is auto, press S, canceling your auto-attack, or whatever button you have "stop" bound to, they'll cast their ability and you've bought yourself breathing room on the lane. Even if you play this lane perfectly avoiding all of her Q's you're probably never going to kill her unless she's being wasteful with her E. This is a knockback effect, meaning it interrupts your E. So unless she's using it on cooldown, you don't have kill windows, play to rotate, and for your team. Early recalling for cull is mandatory.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA Talon is an assassin, talon's also a champion with abilities that place him in guaranteed areas on his abilities which makes him incredibly vulnerable to Urgot's abilities. Q is either a dash or a jab, either range he casts from locks him in to be in a guaranteed position, which means Urgot has a free E. You do not ever use your E aggressively, only reactionary. His main source of damage comes from this and you block it with your shield on E. His other guarantee is his E, he jumps over terrain and when he jumps, he's always guaranteed to be on the other side of the wall from where he jumped, which means your R is lined up perfectly, the only way he can dodge in that scenario is flash.

Threat level: Easy / Hard Suggested rune:  Twisted fate is an extremely skill expressive champion, regardless of how simple his kit is. In the laning phase, his range is superior to yours so you need to respect his auto range, especially when he has hit on-hit passive up from his E. The skill difference between a good and bad TF is map pressure, low-elo tf's will play the lane and lose to you, TF lacks the significant damage to ever kill you, and E buffers the gold card stun from E. TF is very squishy, so at any point in the game, if you Q him twice and he's lost around ~150 ~250 HP, he's in range to be one-shot combo'd. If they start playing the map you need to be very conscious about this and start rushing Tiamat and forcing waves under tower, you cannot follow his roams because his teleport is immediate and on command, you're too slow so don't bother trying to follow it, sack your team, acquire money. Outvalue him in the mid-game.

Threat level: Very hard Suggested rune: Predator Veigar's playing the scaling game and he has a very big safety net as a champion, even if you kill him early game it doesn't matter because his E is one of the best abilities in league. What Veigar likes to do in the current meta is take Predator and run at you with their jungler as it's free ganks, if their jungle isn't playing around him they'll just play the map.



Every second against Veigar you are losing. You need to force heralds, gank top, gank bottom, gank everywhere and not lane against him but be conscious about picking up waves. Your lane is no longer important for the game's sake. Stuns from veigar's E is is bufferable with your E however, so Veigar has no real way to line up all of his abilities on you, even without PTA if you land two Q's onto him he'll be in the combo range of E flash ignite combo, if you get an early kill stay in lane until you can afford lucidity boots.

Unplayable, dodge.

Ban this whe you play mid.

Threat level: Medium

Suggested rune: PTA



Skill matchup. In this lane, you want to always actively trade with Vlad but you need to be conscious about his Q. It becomes periodically becomes empowered which you can see under his health bar, you want to trade him regardless of this ability being up but you don't want to trade him when it's most potent, let the bar drain down some and they'll lose a big chunk of damage but then walk into them. Vladimir will chase you through the lane, mispositioning themselves to get their empowered Q on you. Don't be afraid, this is what you want.





Q them as they Q you. Auto attack first, then hold your W. This will activate PTA with ease and you'll win trades, once you've damaged him enough, usually they'll understand they've lost this trade and W away, that's when you've won. As soon as you see them W keep walking forward, set up your E at the angle of where Vlad will be coming out of his pool and E + Flash him and you've won.

Threat level: Easy

Suggested rune: PTA



There's some wonky interactions with Yasuo-Urgot. The first thing of note is that windwall blocks BOTH of R, R2 counts as a projectile, so if any instance of your R touches his windwall it'll get completely cancelled. If you do not respect this interaction you will lose this lane.



Other than that, Yasuo is a melee champion with a relatively low health bar so that's already a very favourable matchup. Yasuo's even weaker to because he relies on his E but isn't Urgot all skillshots as a champion? The reason this ability is bad againstUrgot is that eventually, he'll set up a guarantee on himself, if you're quick enough you can catch him animation locked dashing on a certain minion, if he dashes through you then all you have to do is E the direction he's dashing through you and you'll flip him, as soon as you've grabbed him he's dead



To make the matchup even worse for Urgot, can buffer his ultimate That means if you're low HP and Yas's looking to you, allow him to hit his Q3 which'll knock you up, as soon as you're hit, use your E forwards, read more about it in my attempted illustration: https://imgur.com/a/xtJCfXH

Threat level: Medium Suggested rune:  This matchup is completely based on one interaction. What  likes to do is combine his two abilities,  and his  , much like  this Q3 knocks up and ordinarily would mean a onesided trade for  , however  buffers all of  's stuns, including  . As soon as you're about to be hit by  's knockup, use your  and you'll flip him and turn the usually onesided trade on its head, repeat this and then you can combo him on the second time since he's a bit tankier due to being a melee champion compared to mages, etc if you want to see another funky interaction, click here.

Threat level: Very easy Suggested rune: PTA Zed's a melee champion, on top of that he's an assassin, both are terrible against Urgot. If you see Zed use his W , just wait for the shadow to expire so he doesn't have a way to dash, once his shadow is on cooldown completely, do your full combo of  E flash W ignite and he'll die guaranteed, keep in mind this only works sub-6. At level 6, just wait for him to try and assassinate you. 100% of the time Zed is behind you whenever he R's you. So all you do is walk forwards, E behind you, you'll flip him into your guaranteed one-shot combo and you've won the lane, if Zed ever ult a teammate of yours, just E behind your ally and you'll flip Zed coming out of his R if  is smart he'll AFK farm with Q and that'll only benefit you since you win the scaling game big time.