Gwen Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 26.17
Gwen The Hallowed Seamstress
Find the best Gwen build guides for League of Legends 2026, Season 3 Patch 26.17. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Gwen build for the 2026, Season 3 meta. Learn more about Gwen's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
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Gwen
Gwen
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Gwen: Mid Lane Bruiser
Gwen: Mid Lane Bruiser
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GWEN HYBRID BRUISER
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Gwen
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Gwen guide for beginers (most info are in the notes)
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The right way to play Gwen
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Running Around With Scissors!
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[S11] GWEN EXPERIMENTAL BUILD (SUSTAIN AND DAMAGE)
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Grasp Gwen
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Gwen Runes
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How to destroy Top as Gwen
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PeZat's Gwenning it with style and you can too!
(On-Going) How to Gwen
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TOP/JG Gwen Build! With a "interesting" item, Enjo
Gwen META BUILD for 11.8 by Thominhasquirtle
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[S11] Best GWEN Build!
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Gwen time my dudes apart that she op cuz power creep its tim
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Gwen, Cutting off the competition :D
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🧵 Gwen Best Builds (Top, Mid, Jg) 🧵
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[11.8] mortemeyn's guide to Gwen (Jungle, Mid Lane)
[11.8] mortemeyn's guide to Gwen (Jungle, Mid Lane)
Gwen Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Gwen we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Gwen, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Gwen this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 26.17. However, if you are a new Gwen player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Gwen!
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Gwen's Runes
50%
Win Rate 62% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 18% Pickrate
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 16% Pickrate
Gwen's Summoner Spells
50%
Win Rate 40% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Starters
50%
Win Rate 84% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Core Items
60%
Win Rate 14% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Gwen's Luxury Items
Gwen's Ability Order
50%
Win Rate 64% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
49%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
53%
Win Rate 10% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Gwen's Runes
53%
Win Rate 56% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 27% Pickrate
Third Best
46%
Win Rate 8% Pickrate
Gwen's Summoner Spells
50%
Win Rate 40% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Starters
48%
Win Rate 30% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Core Items
62%
Win Rate 23% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Gwen's Luxury Items
Gwen's Ability Order
53%
Win Rate 49% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
56%
Win Rate 21% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
51%
Win Rate 9% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
* Each section of the build is rated independently of the others
Gwen's Runes
54%
Win Rate 81% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Second Best
51%
Win Rate 8% Pickrate
Third Best
54%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
Gwen's Summoner Spells
50%
Win Rate 40% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Starters
53%
Win Rate 60% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Gwen's Core Items
61%
Win Rate 19% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Boots
Gwen's Luxury Items
Gwen's Ability Order
52%
Win Rate 60% Pickrate
- 1
- 2
- 3
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
55%
Win Rate 15% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
62%
Win Rate 4% Pickrate
Thousand Cuts (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Gwen Counters
Learn Gwen's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Gwen guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Gwen TOP in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Gwen. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Gwen
Worst Against Gwen
Gwen Skins
Find Gwen's skins and when they were last on sale. Never miss a sale for your favorite skin by using our Wish List feature! You can also find all Gwen skins and chromas on Gwen's skins page.
Our Wish List feature will send you notifications when your skins are on sale!Gwen's Abilities
Active: Consumes stacks. Gwen snips once for 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 (+5% of ability power) magic damage, snips again for each ammo consumed, and then snips a final time for 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+35% of ability power) magic damage.
The center of each strikes deals true damage instead and applies A Thousand Cuts to enemies hit. This ability deals 80% damage towards minions above 20% health. Minions with less than 20% health get immediately executed upon taking damage.
Empowered attacks gain 30 / 42.5 / 55 / 67.5 / 80% attack speed, 15 (+20% of ability power) magic damage on-hit, 75 attack range, and the first one to hit an enemy refunds 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65% of this ability's cooldown.
Second Cast: Fire three needles to deal 105 / 195 / 285 (+30% of ability power) plus 3% (+1.8% per 100 ability power) of the target's max health as magic damage.
Third Cast: Fire five needles to deal 175 / 325 / 475 (+50% of ability power) plus 5% (+3% per 100 ability power) of the target's max health as magic damage.
Questions About Gwen
Latest Questions
Hallowed Mist bug?
I have been finding some people ingame that just ignores the mist, for example: Yesterday i went mid (cause my team partner went top), my lane enemy was a Seraphine, i tought that was going to be an easy matchup, cause sera's a ranged champ, and...
play against ranged champs
whats the best way to do against ranged champions like teemo and jayce?
Gwen MID ?
Is gwen mid possible ? I was thinking of it and I have found no keys not to play it. What dp you think ?
Gwen W Question
If you get hit by Fizz ult, then W (while Fizz is out of W area) would his ult still go off?
