Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
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.
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Renekton against Gwen matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Renekton’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Renekton may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gwen..
Renekton typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Gwen. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Renekton usually loses when taking on Gwen, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Renekton makes a bad counter for Gwen.
While Renekton does have a lower winrate compared to Gwen, when on opposite teams, Renekton also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Renekton into Gwen.
Furthermore, Renekton has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Renekton vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Renekton is a somewhat poor counter to Gwen. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Renekton against Gwen.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Renekton to counter Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Renekton most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Gwen. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Renekton versus Gwen build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Renekton used at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Gwen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Renekton had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Gwen as Renekton, Renekton players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Renekton vs Gwen matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
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