Gwen vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Gwen
based on 566 Gwen vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Elise
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Advice to Win Against Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Gwen vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Gwen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Gwen versus Elise counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Elise..
Gwen often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Elise
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Who is Better, Gwen or Elise?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gwen usually loses when trying to fight Elise, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Gwen makes a bad counter to Elise.
While Gwen does have a lower winrate than Elise, when on opposite teams, Gwen also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gwen into Elise.
Additionally, Gwen also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gwen is a somewhat poor counter for Elise. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gwen against Elise.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gwen
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How We Calculated Our Gwen vs Elise Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen on average accumulates much more CS relative to Elise. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Gwen versus Elise build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better versus Elise than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 48.9% battling Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Elise as Gwen, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Gwen vs Elise fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.9% win rate overall.
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