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Gwen Build

Mid Tier 1

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 3,448 gamesUpdated

52.1%win rate0.2%pick2.0%ban

Who counters Gwen

Every Mid matchup for Gwen, ranked →

How to build Gwen

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

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

60.9% win rate 19% of games 450 games
RunesInspirationFirst StrikeCash BackBiscuit DeliveryJack Of All TradesSorceryAbsolute FocusGathering Storm34% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport29%
Skills
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Snip Snip!
24578
Hallowed Mist
314151718
Skip 'n Slash
19101213
Needlework
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Gwen build →
52.1%win rate
Patch 26.20: 52.6% over 8,709 gamesPatch 26.21: 52.1% over 3,448 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
51.2%at Emerald+
0.2%pick rate
2.0%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
41.5%under 22 min
56.8%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.

Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitM GwenvsLocke champion portraitM Locke
2 / 5 / 3

Build

Chainlaced Crushers|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEW
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitM GwenvsAurelion Sol champion portraitM Aurelion Sol
6 / 3 / 8

Build

Immortal Path|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Gwen champion portraitM GwenvsZoe champion portraitM Zoe
2 / 9 / 1

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Dusk and Dawn→Shadowflame

Spells & runes

FlashCleanse|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWW

Runes

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

Most popular 52.8% win rate · 34% of games · 983 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackBiscuit DeliveryJack Of All Trades
SorceryAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 48.9% win rate · 9% of games · 276 games
InspirationFirst StrikeCash BackBiscuit DeliveryCosmic Insight
SorceryAbsolute FocusGathering Storm
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport29%52.1%1,049 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite29%53.0%1,044 games

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

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes76%Chainlaced Crushers10%Armored Advance6%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 53.0% 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
14% of games that reach a third item take this path64.8% win rate332 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Gwen →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 3,531 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
74% · 53.1% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
9% · 46.5% win rate
Armored AdvanceArmored Advance
5% · 49.2% win rate
Immortal PathImmortal Path
4% · 61.2% win rate
BootsBoots
2% · 26.0% win rate
No bootsNo boots
2% · 59.0% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes9% of games · 42.2% win rate · 327 games
  2. Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame›Rabadon's Deathcap+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 61.1% win rate · 185 games
  3. Dusk and Dawn+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 27.0% win rate · 148 games
  4. Rabadon's Deathcap›Dusk and Dawn›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 57.6% win rate · 85 games
  5. Lich Bane›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes2% of games · 35.9% win rate · 78 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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