Tristana vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Tristana
based on 2,559 Tristana vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Gwen
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Advice to Win Against Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Tristana vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some vital Tristana versus Gwen counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gwen..
Tristana usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Tristana and Gwen
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Who is Better, Tristana or Gwen?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gwen, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Tristana makes an ok counter to Gwen.
While Tristana does have a higher win rate than Gwen, when facing one another, Tristana also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Tristana into Gwen.
Additionally, Tristana also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana vs Gwen matchups, Tristana is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Tristana is a decent counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Tristana against Gwen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Tristana in order to counter Gwen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana on average picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gwen. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Tristana versus Gwen build include Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Gwen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 50.2% battling Gwen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Gwen as Tristana, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Tristana vs Gwen LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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