Gwen

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Comp identity — Top / Jungle / Mid

Leans Split — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Splitnatural · 80%
Catchworkable · 30%
Attackforced · 20%
Gwen wins the sidelane 1v1 through mechanical outplay and drags the map apart. Enough Catch and Attack sits in the kit to punish a caught enemy before the fight starts. Passive (A Thousand Cuts) deals max-HP-based magic damage on hit/ability and heals Gwen against champions.

Kit quirks

Passive (A Thousand Cuts) deals max-HP-based magic damage on hit/ability and heals Gwen against champions
W (Hallowed Mist) makes Gwen untargetable to enemies outside the zone for 4 seconds while granting bonus armor/MR — a positional dodge tool, not a shield
Q (Snip Snip!) is a stacking cone attack whose center hit converts 50% of damage to true damage

How Gwen actually performs in ranked solo queue · 59 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Top50% WR · 34.0 games
Jungle51% WR · 17.0 games
Mid51% WR · 7.3 games
Bot50% WR · 0.6 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

No favored matchups recorded.

Hardest matchups

No losing matchups recorded.

Dragons & win rate

Win rate when Gwen's team secured at least one of each drake, next to the all-champion rate in that same state. Teams that take dragons are usually already ahead, so every champ wins more with them — the honest read is the gap, i.e. whether Gwen beats the average team that also has the drake. Single-drake samples are thin; treat small counts as suggestive.

Cloud62%vs 60% avg+2pp58g

Mountain (Earth)69%vs 59% avg+10pp52g

Hextech67%vs 62% avg+5pp45g

Infernal64%vs 60% avg+4pp45g

Chemtech61%vs 62% avg-1pp44g

Ocean70%vs 63% avg+8pp44g

Champion reference

Base stats and every ability with its per-rank values and ratios. Search all champions →

Gwen — The Hallowed Seamstress

Class: Skirmisher
Resource: Mana
Range type: Melee
Adaptive type: Magic
Positions: Top
Released: 2021-04-15 (V11.8)
Last changed: V26.16
Price: 2,400 BE · 880 RP

Damage

Toughness

Control

Mobility

Utility

Difficulty

Base stats

Stat	Base	Per level	Level 18
Health	620	+115	2575
Health regen (per 5s)	9	+0.9	24.3
Mana	330	+40	1010
Mana regen (per 5s)	7.5	+0.7	19.4
Armor	39	+4.9	122.3
Magic resist	32	+2.05	66.85
Attack damage	63	+3	114
Attack speed	0.69	+2.25%	0.954
Attack speed ratio	0.69
Attack range	150
Movement speed	340

Level 18 uses League's growth curve (base + 17 × per-level); attack speed grows as bonus % scaled by the attack speed ratio.

Advanced stats & game-mode balance

Attack cast time (s): 0.3
Attack total time (s): 1.525
Acquisition radius: 600
Selection height: 120
Selection radius: 100
Pathing radius: 35

ARAM: damage dealt ×1.02

Ultimate Spellbook: damage dealt ×0.95 · damage taken ×1.05

Abilities

Passive

A Thousand Cuts

Innate: Gwen's basic attacks on-hit, the center of Snip Snip!, and Needlework deal bonus magic damage equal to 1% (+ 0.6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health.

A Thousand Cuts is modified based on the target: Heals Gwen for 67% of post-mitigation damage dealt against champions, capped at 12 – 40 (based on level) (+ 7% AP) per instance. Deals an additional 8 – 30 (based on level) bonus magic damage against minions that are below 40% health. Deals a maximum of 3 (+ 5% AP) magic damage against monsters.

Targeting input: PassiveAffects: Self, EnemiesDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: MagicParries: Blocked

Notes (1)

The attacks do not deal the bonus damage against structures.

Snip Snip!

Cost: 40 manaCooldown: 6.5 / 5.75 / 5 / 4.25 / 3.5Cast time: 0.5Effect radius: -50 – 465Width: 75 • 360 • 25Queue threshold: 0.05Circle radius: 515 (-50)

Passive: Gwen's basic attacks generate a stack of Snippy on-hit for 6 seconds, stacking up to 4 times and refreshing on subsequent attacks.

Active: Gwen snips at least twice with her scissors in a cone in the target direction over the cast time, dealing magic damage per snip to all enemies within the area, with the final snip dealing increased damage. The center of each snip converts 50% of the damage to true damage, then applies A Thousand Cuts. Snip Snip! deals 80% damage against minions, and executes them on the first damage instance if they are below 20% health.

Damage per Snip: 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 (+ 5% AP)
Center Damage per Snip: 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26 (+ 5% AP) (+ 1% (+ 0.6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)
Final Snip Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 35% AP)
Final Snip Center Damage: 60 / 85 / 110 / 135 / 160 (+ 35% AP) (+ 1% (+ 0.6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)

If Gwen has any Snippy stacks, she consumes them to snip an additional time for each.

Minimum Damage: 70 / 99 / 128 / 157 / 186 (+ 40% AP)
Minimum Center Damage: 70 / 99 / 128 / 157 / 186 (+ 40% AP) (+ 2% (+ 1.2% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)
Maximum Damage: 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 / 290 (+ 60% AP)
Maximum Center Damage: 110 / 155 / 200 / 245 / 290 (+ 60% AP) (+ 6% (+ 3.6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: Magic, TrueSpell shield: See Notes

Notes (7)

Snip Snip!'s total hitbox uses the intersection of a trapezoid and a circle. Enemies are hit by Snip Snip! only when their hitbox overlaps with both of those areas, or with Gwen's gameplay radius.
Subsequent basic attacks on-hit also refresh the duration of Snippy stacks.
The amount of Snippy stacks Gwen has is indicated below her health bar.
Spell shield blocks only one snip.
This ability will cast from wherever the caster is at the end of the cast time.
The first snip happens at 0.13 seconds, the last one at the end of the cast time.
Bonus snips from Snippy stacks each happen at 0.45, 0.4, 0.35 and 0.23 seconds into the cast time.

Map-specific differences (3)

Final snip AP ratio changed to 40% AP.
Final snip base damage changed to 50 / 70 / 90 / 110 / 130.
Final snip AP ratio changed to 25% AP.

Hallowed Mist

Cost: 60 manaCooldown: 22 / 21 / 20 / 19 / 18Cast time: noneEffect radius: 480Speed: 2000Queue threshold: 0.5

Active: Gwen summons the Hallowed Mist upon her current location, lasting for 4 seconds. Hallowed Mist can be recast after 0.5 seconds, and does so automatically if Gwen attempts to leave the area.

While inside the mist, Gwen becomes ghosted, gains bonus armor and bonus magic resistance and is untargetable to all enemies (except turrets and monsters) outside of the mist.

Bonus Resistances: 22 / 24 / 26 / 28 / 30 (+ 7% AP)

Recast: Gwen commands the mist to move to her current location.

Gwen negates all attacks by monsters outside of the mist.

Targeting input: AutoAffects: Self

Notes (12)

Hallowed Mist's untargetability does not apply to monsters nor turrets, meaning they are allowed to gain aggro against Gwen and attack her regardless of being in the mist or not.
However, Gwen will not take damage from monsters that hit her and are outside of the mist.
Hallowed Mist does not grant untargetability against enemy pets inside the zone if their source is outside, but does grant untargetability against enemy pets outside the zone even if their source is inside.
All projectiles targeted at Gwen by enemy champions outside the mist are destroyed upon attempting to pass through the mist or being inside the mist.
Targeted projectiles sourced by minions or monsters will not be destroyed and can still hit Gwen even if they are outside of the zone.
If Gwen dashes out of the area, the mist will automatically move to the dash's destination instead of Gwen's location.
The mist will stop moving immediately if the dash is interrupted.
The recast will move the mist's center 75 units through Gwen's location at the time.
If she is dashing, the mist will move 75 units through her dash destination instead.
The mist will teleport to Gwen's location if she blinks a far distance.
Enemy champions outside the mist are indicated with a broken sword.
Hallowed Mist will indicate that Gwen is Immune whenever an effect attempts to hit Gwen.

Map-specific differences (1)

Cooldown changed to 26 / 25 / 24 / 23 / 22 seconds.

Skip 'n Slash

Cost: 35 ManaCooldown: 13 / 12.5 / 12 / 11.5 / 11Cast time: noneTarget range: 350 • 450Queue threshold: 0.5

Active: Gwen dashes to the target location, then empowers her basic attacks within the next 4 seconds to deal 15 (+ 20% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit and gain bonus attack speed and 75 bonus attack range.

Bonus Attack Speed: 30 / 42.5 / 55 / 67.5 / 80%

Gwen's first basic attack within the duration refunds a percentage of Skip 'n Slash's cooldown.

Cooldown Refund: 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 / 65%

Skip 'n Slash resets Gwen's basic attack timer, and can be cast during any of her abilities, and vice versa.

Targeting input: LocationTarget out-of-range override: Target at maximum range (clamped)Insufficient dash range: Dash will gain bonus range through terrainAffects: SelfDamage type: Proc damageDamage sub-types: MagicGrounded: DisabledKnockdown: Interrupted

Notes (1)

Skip 'n Slash has no minimum dash range.

Needlework

Cost: 100 ManaCooldown: 120 / 100 / 80Cast time: 0.25 • 0.5Range: -100 + 1350Width: 240 - 30Speed: 1800Queue threshold: 0.5

Active: Gwen launches a needle in the target direction that deals magic damage to enemies hit and slows them for 1.5 seconds.

Magic Damage per Needle: 30 / 50 / 70 (+ 10% AP)
Damage with A Thousand Cuts: 30 / 50 / 70 (+ 10% AP) (+ 1% (+ 0.6% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)
Slow: 40 / 50 / 60%

Needlework can be recast twice more within 8 seconds of the activation at no additional cost, with a 1-second static cooldown between casts. Each subsequent cast refreshes the duration and increases the number of needles launched by 2. Needle hits beyond the first apply a slow against each individual target.

Subsequent Slow: 15 / 20 / 25%

Recast: Gwen mimics the first cast's effects, while barraging three needles on the second cast and five on the third cast.

Second Cast Total Damage: 90 / 150 / 210 (+ 30% AP) (+ 3% (+ 1.8% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)
Third Cast Total Damage: 150 / 250 / 350 (+ 50% AP) (+ 5% (+ 3% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)
Maximum Total Damage: 270 / 450 / 630 (+ 90% AP) (+ 9% (+ 5.4% per 100 AP) of the target's maximum health)

Gwen can move during Needlework's cast times.

Targeting input: DirectionAffects: EnemiesDamage type: Area damageDamage sub-types: MagicSpell shield: See NotesProjectile: Blocked

Notes (9)

Dying during the cast time will prevent the remaining needles of the cast from being launched.
The first cast's cast time is 0.25 seconds, and the second and third's cast times are each 0.5 seconds. Gwen launches the needles during the cast times.
For the second cast, the first needle launches 0.264 seconds after the start of the cast, the second needle launches after 0.132 seconds, and the third needle launches 0.231 seconds after the first.
For the third cast, the first needle launches 0.264 seconds after the start of the cast. Each additional needle launches 0.066 seconds seconds after the previous one.
The needles of each cast will fire based on Gwen's location at 0.264 seconds into each cast time (in case of the first cast, this is at the end of the cast time).
The needles fire from 100 units behind the cast location.
The width of all needle missiles decreases with their distance travelled, forming an approximately triangular missile hitbox.
Needles of the same cast all travel the same line at a slight delay after one another. The visual origins are offset (by 70 and 110 units to either side from the center missile spawn location), but the actual hitting missiles all follow the central line.
Spell shield blocks only one needle.

Map-specific differences (2)

Cooldown changed to 110 / 90 / 70 seconds.
Base damage per needle changed to 25 / 50 / 75.

Stats and abilities from the League of Legends Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0), built for patch 26.22.

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