✦ Starter Item
Doran's Blade
Default item — you will take it in 98% of matchups.
Doran's Shield
Take this in all the high range and poke matchups like Teemo or Rumble.
✦ Boots
Gluttonous Greaves
Excellent in mixed damage compositions and the best boots for Urgot overall.
Plated Steelcaps
Very good in 2/3+ AD team and a good rush in Ambessa, Tryndamere, Jayce.
Mercury's Treads
Essential in high CC compositions. Rush against Kennen.
✦ First Back
Black Cleaver is the only first item — every game, no exception. You need to prioritise this over everything like potions, boots, Magic Resist or armor. Except in some matchups where boots are good to rush first like Yasuo, Ambessa, Kennen…
600g
The cheapest "good" back for Urgot. It delays your BC spike and is only good in low interaction MUs like Garen or K'Sante.
750g
Not a great back — it's just before Pickaxe but it does the job.
800g — NEVER BUY
The worst item to build ever. Gives no good stats.
800g
Only buy on first back in specific MUs like Wukong, Renekton, Irelia, Fiora to destroy their lane.
875g — THE component
Pickaxe is THE component to first buy for Black Cleaver. It's great if you can back to buy it.
1100g
Phage first back is a great back due to the HP, AD and MS. It lets you trade more and apply a lot more pressure in lane.
1225g — BEST back
Pickaxe and a Long Sword is THE BEST back — it's a late back because you need a lot of gold but you get so much stat for its value.
✦ What Item to Build
Core Items
Essential every game
Black Cleaver
The first item of Urgot — essential every game.
Sterak's Gage
Usually the second item for Urgot in 90% of games — can be built 3rd at the profit of a Deadman's Plate if enemy team has 3+ AD.
Great Items
Highly recommended — build often
Rookern
Excellent in burst AP (Magic) damage. Like Syndra, Ryze, Gwen, Aurora (Luden's).
Randuin's Omen
OP in 2+ crit compositions — so almost all ADCs and Yasuo, Yone, Viego…
Force of Nature
Great buy in burn champion compositions like Teemo, Aurelion, Malzahar. Gives MS which is excellent on Urgot.
Deadman's Plate
Great in high mobility compositions and huge slow — very good armor item if enemy team doesn't have a lot of crit. Good vs Ashe, Illaoi, Smolder…
Good Items
Situationally strong — pick wisely
Thornmail
The only anti heal item you will ever do on Urgot. Build Bramble Vest and finish it as your last item — it's not worth completing before your other items.
Chempunk Chainsword
If you build greavous boot it value rise a lot over thornmail, make you really tanky and give you some good damage.
Jak'Sho, The Protean
Great item but only in 4th or 5th slot (not counting boots). Its passive scales with bonus resistances so you need to build defensive items first to make it effective.
Overlord's Bloodmail
This item fell off but is still good on Urgot. Build it if you need to carry a game and need more damage — in S16 a more tanky Urgot is better.
Situational Items
Niche — only in specific scenarios
Spear of Shojin
Only build Shojin in 2+ tank or HP stacker compositions, like Mundo, Cho'Gath, Skarner, Alistar… It boosts your passive and helps taking them down faster.
Serpent's Fang
Only build on Urgot when enemy team has a lot of shields (Karma, Lulu, Ivern…) and no one else in your team can build it. It's not a great item on Urgot.
Frozen Heart
Almost never build in game. The only reason you can possibly build it: it's the highest armor item available and if there are 2/3+ attack speed dependent champions.
Hullbreaker
Less and less useful this season — the only way you can use it is if your team is really behind and your lane opponent can't stop you from pushing, so you can create a 4v4 or 4v3 at objectives for your team.
Bad Items — Never Build These
Avoid at all costs
Tiamat
All tiamat items have no synergy with Urgot's kit — you have built-in wave clear with your legs. A pure waste of gold.
Stridebreaker
Bad item on Urgot — you already have a slow on Q and the active is redundant. Very inefficient stats for the cost.
Death's Dance
Looks tempting but gives no tankiness. It's hard nerf for range so you basicly have no passive and it's kill you more than anything.
Maw of Malmortius
Bad stats for Urgot — Deny you of a Sterak's, the passive shield triggers too late and the AD is wasted. Build Rookern or FoN instead for AP matchups.
Endless Hunger
Pure damage item with no tankiness — Greavous boot give you the same without commiting an item. You will die instantly with this.
Bastion Breaker
Never build this on Urgot — Nerf for range, the tower damage are super situational, if oyu need to split do hullbreaker.
