By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026
The Hallowed Seamstress
Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (3,033 games).
Gwen, the Hallowed Seamstress, snips up to six times with Snip Snip! and can only be targeted from inside her Hallowed Mist. Master+ players took her Top more than into the jungle, mostly on Conqueror, and the build they settled on runs Dusk and Dawn, Shadowflame, Rabadon's Deathcap.
Fighter
Patch 26.18 · Top · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 3,033 games · Preview sample
3,033
Games
High
Confidence
Win rate by lane
59.1%Win Rate
Flash
Ignite43.3%Win Rate
Ghost
Smite
This exact page: taken in 9.3% of games·46.3% win rate over 283 games.
Gain stacks of adaptive force when attacking enemy champions. After reaching 12 stacks, heal for a portion of damage you deal to champions.
Restore a small amount of mana or energy when damaging an enemy champion. Takedowns restore mana or energy.
Takedowns on enemies grant permanent Attack Speed.
Deal more damage to champions while you are low on health.
After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 (based on level) less damage. Duration: 1.5s Cooldown: 55s
Gain Armor and Magic Resist when receiving crowd control.
First Strike12.8% taken · 52.7% win387 games
Stormraider's Surge12.3% taken · 46.5% win372 games
Press the Attack1.4% taken · 52.4% win42 games
Precision + Inspiration37.0% taken · 51.2% win1,122 gamesPrecision + Resolve35.1% taken · 48.9% win1,065 games
Inspiration + Sorcery11.3% taken · 53.2% win344 gamesWhich ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Gwen's most common path.
QGwen snips her scissors in a cone up to 6 times dealing magic damage.
Cooldown 6.5/5.75/5/4.25/3.5s · 40 Mana
WGwen summons mist that protects her from enemies outside of it.
Cooldown 22/21/20/19/18s · 60 Mana
EGwen dashes a short distance then gains Attack Speed, attack range, and magic damage On-Hit for a few seconds.
Cooldown 13/12.5/12/11.5/11s · 35 Mana
RGwen hurls a needle that slows enemies hit, deals magic damage, and applies A Thousand Cuts to champions hit.
Cooldown 120/100/80s · 100 ManaMax Q first, then E, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QSnip Snip! | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||||
| WHallowed Mist | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||||
| ESkip 'n Slash | E | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||||
| RNeedlework | R | R | R |
How Gwen performs against enemy top laners
Recommended items by enemy team composition
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Avoid extended fights — its sustain grows with every trade it survives
Punish the cooldown — Gwen is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 5/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Trade on your terms — take the fight where its damage lands on nobody
PA Thousand Cuts
Gwen's attacks deal bonus magic damage based on the targets health. She heals for a portion of the damage dealt to champions by this effect.
Passive — never cast
QSnip Snip!
Gwen snips her scissors in a cone up to 6 times dealing magic damage. Gwen deals true damage to units in the center and applies her passive to them on each snip.
Cost 40 ManaCooldown 6.5/5.75/5/4.25/3.5sRange 450
WHallowed Mist
Gwen summons mist that protects her from enemies outside of it. She can only be targeted by enemies who enter the mist.
Cost 60 ManaCooldown 22/21/20/19/18sRange 0
ESkip 'n Slash
Gwen dashes a short distance then gains Attack Speed, attack range, and magic damage On-Hit for a few seconds. If she hits an enemy during that time, this Ability's cooldown is partially refunded.
Cost 35 ManaCooldown 13/12.5/12/11.5/11sRange 400
RNeedlework
Gwen hurls a needle that slows enemies hit, deals magic damage, and applies A Thousand Cuts to champions hit. This ability can be cast up to two more times, with each cast throwing additional needles and dealing more damage.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 120/100/80sRange 1200
Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Gwen in 11 patches. The latest is patch 26.16, published 2026-08-11.
PA Thousand Cuts
Gwen has remained slightly weak since her nerfs earlier this year. We are buffing her passive sustain back up towards where it has previously been, which should help her be a powerful threat in some of her stronger matchups without making her feel uncounterable.
QSnip Snip!
ESkip 'n Slash
Gwen has been cut out of the meta for quite some time across all skill brackets. She lost some power with 26.09's minor rework to Dusk and Dawn, so we're giving her some of that power back in the early game. She'll remain a scaling pick, but a weaker first item spike has cost her early game a bit too much. These changes should help Gwen players live that snip and skip fantasy at all stages!
QSnip Snip!
RNeedlework
With all the extra experience and/or gold scaling in Gwen's primary roles, she's become a total monster in the new season. While her recent jungle nerfs brought her two roles to similar power levels, they're both equally overpowered. We're not looking to significantly change her power curve, just make her fairer to play against and since we want to maintain her as a premier AP fighter, this means reducing her burst damage.
PA Thousand Cuts
Gwen jungle has skyrocketed in both pickrate and winrate. While we're excited to see her loving the new season and snipping from dusk til dawn, we need to make sure she's not turning all opponents (especially jungle camps) into paper.
Base Stats
PA Thousand Cuts
QSnip Snip!
WHallowed Mist
ESkip 'n Slash
RNeedlework
Back in 25.06 we sought to give Gwen more power over her laning phase while still being that scaling AP skirmisher. However, those changes have left her in a less popular state that has alienated Gwen players from the version of her that they enjoyed. So we're going back to almost the exact same champion from 25.05, with two differences: Her armor growth is a little lower, and her jungle levers are weaker. These two changes weren't reverted because she was a little too strong in top and significantly too strong in the jungle back before the changes. Enjoy your Gwensday tomorrow!
Base Stats
RNeedlework
Gwen is still very powerful in the hands of experts, especially pros, after her reshape in 15.6. While Gwen players have enjoyed her newfound agency in lane, we want to ensure she has some weak matchups and can't simply flip the script at level 6 with a guaranteed chasedown. We're delivering some compensation so as not to pull too much power out of her kit.
Base Stats
WHallowed Mist
Gwen’s a bit too strong in solo queue and very potent in pro play, so we’re bringing her power level down to where it deserves to be. To ensure these are pro focused, we’re aiming this nerf at her early game which is much more impactful at the highest levels of play as opposed to solo queue where she has more ability to scale consistently.
Base Stats
PA Thousand Cuts
QSnip Snip!
As a new surge of Gwen players have gotten better at her, the apparent rise in mastery has been offsetting some of our recent nerfs. As she’s still one of the strongest champions in the game, and the single strongest one in jungle, we’re delivering some more nerfs to keep up with how well all of you are playing her.
ESkip 'N Slash
Gwen's new power curve has added a lot of agency to her early game, but she's still a little too high-power for her current shape and slightly too powerful earlygame.
QSnip Snip
WHallowed Mist
Gwen is too strong after her 15.6 changes, and more early game skewed than intended. To ensure she's still somewhat of a scaling champion as intended, we're going back on some of the previous early game buffs and re-adding some of her old scaling.
Base Stats
P - Thousand Cuts
QSnip Snip!
WHallowed Mist
ESkip 'N Slash
RNeedlework
Gwen was originally intended to be a lightly scaling AP fighter, and her kit's design and strengths reflect that. However, over time she shifted towards late game scaling and she's been closer in power curve shape to a hyperscaler like Kayle as opposed to a lightly scaling fighter like Fiora. We believe that the best version of Gwen is one where her Q stacking gameplay and E dash are actually powerful and fun tools to work with in the laning phase, and potentially even in the jungle. But today she tends to play to scale and wins teamfights with only Needlework casts. We still want players to be able to take over games as Gwen, but by using her entire kit rather than farming up a bunch of gold and throwing ultimate needles.
Riot's data lists 7 looks for Gwen with their own art, the base skin included and 50 chroma variants.
Best ARAM build
This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
| Stat | Gwen | Rank | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base health | 620 | =85th | 620 |
| Health per level | 115 | =9th | 104 |
| Base armor | 39 | =6th | 30 |
| Armor per level | 4.9 | =36th | 4.6 |
| Base magic resist | 32 | =32nd | 32 |
| Magic resist per level | 2.05 | =4th | 1.55 |
| Base attack damage | 63 | =41st | 59 |
| Base attack speed | 0.69 | =15th | 0.656 |
| Attack speed per level | 2.25% | =96th | 2.5% |
| Move speed | 340 | =37th | 335 |
| Attack range | 150 | =115th | 175 |
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 18 | Rank at 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 620 | +115 | 2575 | 17th of 173 |
| Mana | 330 | +40 | 1010 | 90th of 145 |
| Armor | 39 | +4.9 | 122.3 | 14th of 173 |
| Magic resist | 32 | +2.05 | 66.85 | =5th of 173 |
Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.
Gwen, The Hallowed Seamstress, is a Fighter champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 5/10 for difficulty, 7/10 for attack, 4/10 for defense and 5/10 for magic. Gwen spends Mana and has 7 skins with their own art. Gwen's base armor of 39 is the 6th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 2 others). Gwen's health per level of 115 is the 9th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20 (shared with 4 others).
A former doll transformed and brought to life by magic, Gwen wields the very tools that once created her. She carries the weight of her maker's love with every step, taking nothing for granted. At her command is the Hallowed Mist, an ancient and protective magic that has blessed Gwen's scissors, needles, and sewing thread. So much is new to her, but Gwen remains joyfully determined to fight for the good that survives in a broken world.
