Gwen vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Gwen
based on 3,705 Gwen vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Warwick Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Warwick Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Gwen vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Gwen in LoL
The stats shown here show several valuable Gwen vs. Warwick counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Warwick..
Gwen normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Warwick. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Warwick
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Who is Better, Gwen or Warwick?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gwen usually loses when facing off against Warwick, with a 45.3% win rate. As a result, Gwen makes a bad counter to Warwick.
While Gwen does have a much lower winrate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Gwen also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gwen into Warwick.
Moreover, Gwen has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gwen vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gwen is a garbage counter for Warwick. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gwen against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to counter Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen usually picks up more CS compared to Warwick. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gwen versus Warwick build include Nashor's Tooth, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Cosmic Drive. When Gwen used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Warwick than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 45.3% battling Warwick with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Warwick as Gwen, you should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Gwen vs Warwick fights, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.3% win rate overall.
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