🔥GwenJungle Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities🕹️

Gwen is one of the best carry junglers in the entire game. She is a farm-heavy scaling champ that has some of the best dueling and sidelaning. When ahead on Gwen, you are able to single-handedly carry games like no other champ can. Gwen has one of the most satisfying kits in the game, and is one of my favourite junglers to play. She is super underrated because of her slow early game, but we’ll get into that later.

Gwen jungle has a 52.78% win rate in Emerald+ on Patch 15.06 coming in at rank 1 of 69 and graded S+ Tier on the LoL Tierlist. Gwen jungle is a strong counter to Gragas, Skarner & Nocturne while Gwen is countered most by Bel'Veth, Shaco & Poppy. The best Gwen players have a 59.36% win rate with an average rank of Master on the Gwen Leaderboard. Below is a detailed breakdown of the Gwen build, runes & counters.

Strengths

• Very Fun: Gwen has a very strong and fun kit for those who like auto attacking, dealing insane damage.
• Immense 1v9 Potential: Gwen scales hard with her items and can 1v9 games, even the doomed ones, after 3 items.
• Gwen is Immune: Insanely busted ability if used correctly. Run people down, negate backlines, get big resistances, immune everything outside. Can absolutely 1v9 fights.
• Strong Teamfighter: Gwen can zone people and shred through frontlines during Hallowed Mist, run down people for free, and do insane AoE dmg with her Snip Snip! and Needlework.
• Great Objective/Tower shredder: Gwen is solid at taking objectives and can look to get a lot of gold on sidelane with how quick she shreds towers.
• Cute Scissor Girl: Solid skins, S-tier dance, design, fanart. Just Ws all around.

Weaknesses

• Low gank potential pre-6: Gwen has no CC for ganks pre-6 and can pretty much only flank people with Ghost
• Vulnerable outside of W: Not having W makes it a lot harder to walk up in teamfights and it takes a lot of Gwen experience/discipline to know how to use/space W properly.
• Weak early/prone to invades: Gwen is pretty weak before her first items and needs to priortize farming to level 6 and can have less impact compared to stronger early game junglers. She's also prone to invades and it's very bad to have camps stolen.
• Reliant on Ult for teamfights: Having ult for the AoE damage and slow is so important and its hard to take fights if you're missing ult and they have theirs.
• Very resource-reliant: If your team is getting stomped and you lose map control, being unable to farm makes the game significantly harder as Gwen.
• Countered by Dive assassins: People who can dive on top of you and one shot you are hard to counterplay unless you have a lot of AP for Hallowed Mist resistances.

• Try to get a good ward in the jungle before the game starts, depending where it is placed, it can tell you where the enemy jungle started and predict where they are pathing. I will show them in my clear video below.
• Try to save Needlework and Ghost unless you're fully guaranteed a kill/committed to a good fight, it makes or breaks teamfights.
• Properly using Gwen's W is something that takes a lot of games to master, sometimes it is good to use it early so that you can run down people for free, sometimes its good to hold it to hold off their backline while you Snip Snip! their frontline.
• Play with your winning laners (gank for them/hover around them while they are pushing to protect them from ganks, unless it's 2v5 xd) Ganking for them before objectives usually means a free objective.
• Once you get to the mid-game (after first-item usually), it is ideal if you can clear your camps before taking fights/objectives but if a fight/gank is happening and you can win it, I'd definitely skip camps to hover as kills later in the game can translate to towers/objectives. Losing map control as Gwen sucks as that means you lose access to farming camps = less gold income.

• AA + E +AA + Q + AA: Start with an AA, then E and AA again, then Q and AA to finish.
• AA + E + W + AA + AA + AA + AA + Q + AA: Begin with an AA, then E, W, AA quickly. Then hit two more AA's, Q and AA to finish.
• R + E + AA + AA + R + AA + AA + R + Q + AA: Start with your R and instantly E to get on your target. AA, AA, R, AA, AA, R and finally Q and AA to finish.
• W + E + FLASH: Use your W, then E & Flash.
• R + E + AA + R + AA + R + FLASH: Start with your R, then E and AA, then RR and AA and finally RR Flash to finish.
• AA + E + AA + AA + AA + Q + FLASH + AA: Start with an AA E AA, then AA, AA and Q, Flash & AA.
• R + AA + E +AA + R + Q + AA + W + R + FLASH: Start with your R and then AA E AA for the reset. Then R, Q and AA. then W, R, Flash quickly to finish.