AP duelist build for prolonged cutting: Gwen does not win on a single burst, but when she keeps contact long enough for her snips, mist, and melee scaling to become impossible to hold. The build must therefore fund access and durability as much as damage.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,500 total cost
Nothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Magic penetration build targeting enemy resistances. Pick this if the enemy stacks magic resist.
15,100 total cost -400gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,400 total cost -100g
Share of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Standard build maximizing damage output. Use on neutral matchups or when ahead.
15,500 total costNothing dominates on the other side: the standard build maximizes your damage.
Open this draft in the tool →Magic penetration build targeting enemy resistances. Pick this if the enemy stacks magic resist.
15,100 total cost -400gDefensive build adding survivability. Pick this against high enemy damage or when behind.
15,400 total cost -100gShare of the roster this champion outclasses, at each stage of the game.
50% = average for the roster at that point of the game, 90% = among the strongest. The three phases come from the site's editorial tempo grid (early/mid/late, rated across 142 champions); the level-by-level curve adds this build's computed spikes — ultimate, completed items — never by more than ±8 points.
Your hardest matchups in this role, and the item from your situational list that answers each one.
Same advisor in the Draft (the MVP sheet applies it to your real draft) and in Ask Nexus, which explains the choice. On counters pages: the variant to take against each counter-pick.
Skill leveling order and rune choices explained, from our in-depth kit analysis (patch 7.0e). Ability numbers are from patch 7.3; up-to-date items are in the section above.
Gwen wins fights by staying active longer than her opponents. Her build must allow her to survive long enough for her DPS and sustain to take over.
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Tap an ability for its per-rank numbers. Source: official Tencent data (Chinese server), patch 7.3 — may lead or lag the global server by a sub-patch.
Q Snip Snip! repeated inside of the W Hallowed Mist stack Conqueror quickly.
Your scaling scares opponents out of the side lane — collect the plates nobody defends.
Covers the window when W is down — short trades stop chipping you.
Accumulated HP to she is hard to kill during his split-push and dives.
E (Skip 'N Slash) dash triggers penetration magic during his engages.
Second Wind
Bone Plating
Overgrowth
Perseverance
Coup De Grace
Giant Slayer
