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Gwen Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 22,322 gamesUpdated

49.4%win rate1.0%pick2.0%ban

Who counters Gwen

Every Top matchup for Gwen, ranked →

How to build Gwen

Sorcerer's Shoes→Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Sorcerer's Shoes → Dusk and Dawn → Shadowflame → Rabadon's Deathcap

58.1% win rate 17% of games 2,206 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast StandResolveBone PlatingUnflinching38% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%
Skills
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Snip Snip!
14578
Hallowed Mist
314151718
Skip 'n Slash
29101213
Needlework
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Gwen build →
49.4%win rate
Patch 26.20: 49.5% over 54,255 gamesPatch 26.21: 49.4% over 22,322 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
50.4%at Emerald+
1.0%pick rate
2.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
44.7%under 22 min
52.2%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitT GwenvsAmbessa champion portraitT Ambessa
9 / 2 / 7

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitT GwenvsJax champion portraitT Jax
6 / 6 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashExhaust|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitT GwenvsZaahen champion portraitT Zaahen
2 / 3 / 4

Build

Boots|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 47.3% win rate · 38% of games · 8,087 games
PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
ResolveBone PlatingUnflinching
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 47.8% win rate · 12% of games · 2,557 games
PrecisionConquerorPresence of MindLegend: AlacrityLast Stand
InspirationBiscuit DeliveryMagical Footwear
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite66%49.0%15,309 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport13%48.2%2,967 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes39%Plated Steelcaps31%Mercury's Treads14%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 50.5% win rate

Gwen build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Dusk and Dawn1st
  2. Shadowflame2nd
  3. Rabadon's Deathcap3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path62.8% win rate1,241 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Gwen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 22,666 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
38% · 50.5% win rate
Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
30% · 49.1% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
13% · 50.9% win rate
Gluttonous GreavesGluttonous Greaves
6% · 56.7% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 36.8% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
3% · 49.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes5% of games · 44.1% win rate · 1,194 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn+Sorcerer's Shoes3% of games · 32.2% win rate · 686 games
  3. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Plated Steelcaps3% of games · 43.5% win rate · 572 games
  4. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Sorcerer's Shoes2% of games · 57.6% win rate · 550 games
  5. Dusk and Dawn+Plated Steelcaps2% of games · 29.5% win rate · 447 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Gwen against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Gwen's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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