Darius vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Darius
based on 1,684 Darius vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Gwen
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Advice to Win Against Gwen
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Darius vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several strategic Darius versus Gwen matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the pair. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gwen..
Darius usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Gwen
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Who is Better, Darius or Gwen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Darius usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Darius makes a great counter to Gwen.
While Darius does have a higher winrate compared to Gwen, when facing one another, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Darius into Gwen.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Gwen matchups, Darius is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Darius is a great counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Darius in order to counter Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically gets a similar amount of CS as Gwen. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Darius versus Gwen build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Darius combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Gwen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Darius had an average winrate of 53.4% battling Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Gwen as Darius, Darius players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Darius vs Gwen LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Darius are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.