Who is Gwen good against in Wild Rift?

Gwen is a favorable matchup into Dr. Mundo, Mordekaiser, Sion, and Malphite in the Baron Lane role. For example, Dr. Mundo: Mundo is one giant health bar and your damage scales off exactly that, so you snip through his regeneration and out-sustain the sustain tank from start to finish.

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Q: Who counters Gwen in Wild Rift?

Gwen's strongest Baron Lane counters in Wild Rift are Darius, Tryndamere, Shen, and Wukong. For example, Darius: The pull drags you out of your own mist, which is the whole matchup. His bleed out-trades your early stacks and his execute does not care about your sustain, at least until your items finally let you out-trade him.

Who counters Gwen in Wild Rift? The toughest Gwen Baron lane counters are Darius, Tryndamere, and Shen. Full Gwen Baron Lane counters and matchups, plus the best build, runes, and game plan for Patch 7.2c.

Overview

Gwen has one of the best tank-shredding kits in the game. Her scissors deal percent max health magic damage and heal her as they cut, and the center of her Q deals true damage that no defensive build stops. Anything built around a big health bar is a free target for her. Hallowed Mist is her signature trick: a drifting cloud that makes her untargetable to anyone outside it. Enemies either step into the mist and fight on her terms or wait it out while she snips freely. Whole trades, ganks, and tower dives fail inside that cloud, which makes her one of the safest scaling picks in the lane. She struggles against opponents who refuse to enter the cloud: ranged poke that chips her between mists, and hard duelists who beat her at melee. Gwen wins by reaching her items and forcing every fight to happen inside her mist.

Strengths

Percent max health damage plus healing makes her the natural counter to tanks and bruisers.
Hallowed Mist blocks all targeting from outside, shutting down ganks, poke, and whole trade patterns.
Scales into an elite split pusher and duelist who out-sustains most of the lane roster.

Weaknesses

Mist-dependent: caught with the cloud down, she is a squishy melee champion in the open.
Ranged poke chips her between cooldowns and fights her from outside the mist.
Out-dueled early by the lane's hard fighters before her items arrive.

Build Snapshot

Ruby Crystal Spellslinger's Shoes Dusk and Dawn Riftmaker Rabadon's Deathcap Void Staff Zhonya's Hourglass Morellonomicon

Rune Setup

Conqueror Demolish Second Wind Overgrowth Sudden Impact Bone Plating

Summoner Spells

Flash Must take. Her mist protects the ground she is standing on, so Flash is how she moves that ground to where the fight is. Ignite Take this for early kill pressure in the solo lane, since one kill is usually enough to start snowballing it. The Grievous Wounds also makes it strong into champions with a lot of healing. Teleport Take this over Ignite into a losing lane. She wants to reach her items, and a free reset keeps her on the wave while she gets there.

Gwen Baron Lane Counters

Who counters Gwen Baron Lane in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Gwen in the Baron lane matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.

Darius: The pull drags you out of your own mist, which is the whole matchup. His bleed out-trades your early stacks and his execute does not care about your sustain, at least until your items finally let you out-trade him.
Tryndamere: His crits come online faster than your stacks and his undying window outlasts your cloud, so full-rage duels are his. Your percent damage only wins later, once your items arrive.
Shen: Shen's block stops your flurries when it matters, and his taunt pulls you out of the mist into a trade on his terms. His sustain means your snips never quite finish him, so he freely pressures the map with ult roams.
Wukong: Wukong reaches you whether the mist is up or not: he waits out the cloud, bursts you before your sustain matters, and the clone baits the mist you were saving for his real combo.

Champions Gwen Is Strong Against

Gwen's best matchups in Wild Rift. Gwen holds an edge against these picks in the Baron lane role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.

Dr. Mundo: Mundo is one giant health bar and your damage scales off exactly that, so you snip through his regeneration and out-sustain the sustain tank from start to finish.
Mordekaiser: The death realm steals stats from a champion who scales off percent damage, so it barely matters, and you out-duel him inside it. Only the early levels favor him, when his burn out-trades your low stacks.
Sion: Sion is an enormous free target: his health pool feeds your passive, his knockup fails against good mist timing, and his shield melts under true damage.
Malphite: All that armor and no magic resist: your snips are percent-health magic damage and your Q center is true damage, so his armor stacking does nothing. His wide-radius ultimate is his only real threat.

Early Game

Trade where the mist favors you. Snip with Q and your passive, and the moment they answer, drop the mist and watch their trade fail against an untargetable champion. Fight inside the cloud or at its edge, never in the open. Your sustain plus true damage wins most melee trades you choose, so choose them: full passive stacks, their key cooldown down, mist available. Against ranged poke, farm patiently and save the cloud for their commit.

Mid Game

Your first item turns the snipping into real kill pressure on anything with a big health bar. Split push a side lane and welcome whoever they send: inside your mist, most defenders cannot fight back profitably. Your E dash plus the cloud makes collapses expensive for them and survivable for you. Your ultimate's needles add reach against kiters; unlock them early in fights, since the stacks build as the fight goes on.

Late Game

You exist to delete the enemy frontline. Keep a lane pushed, duel the defenders, and in grouped fights walk your mist through their tanks while the percent damage melts them. Their backline is reachable too: a mist-covered dash onto a carry is a kill most peel cannot stop. Track your cloud carefully, since it is your entire defense, and a Gwen caught in the open is everyone's favorite target.

Teamfights

Fight from inside the mist or not at all. Open on their frontline, snipping the biggest health bars while the mist blocks their focus, and let your ultimate's needles slow and chunk the group. When their tanks melt, and they will, the mist walks you to the backline next. The discipline is cloud timing: drop it as their damage commits, not before, and reposition with E so the fight stays inside your mist.

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