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 stats shown here highlight some vital Yone against Gwen matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gwen..
Yone normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yone usually wins when trying to fight Gwen, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a great counter for Gwen.
While Yone does have a higher win rate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Yone also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Yone into Gwenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Yone has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yone vs Gwen matchups, Yone is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Yone is a great counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Gwen.
If you would like to truly master Yone in order to counter Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone on average gets a similar amount of CS as Gwen. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Yone versus Gwen build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yone used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Gwen than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Yone had an average winrate of 53.1% battling Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Gwen as Yone, Yone players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Yone vs Gwen matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Yone are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.