Yasuo with Gwen
How to Synergize Yasuo and Gwen
based on 6,088 Yasuo with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Yasuo Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Yasuo and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Yasuo with Gwen
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Yasuo Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Yasuo in LoL
The Yasuo Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Yasuo sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gwen helps Yasuo perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Yasuo plays on the same team as Gwen, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Gwen doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Yasuo is played alongside Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gwen.
Additionally, when Yasuo plays with Gwen on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gwen does a decent job of covering Yasuo during team fights.
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Is Yasuo better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Yasuo that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Gwen is a not very good teammate for Yasuo. By locking into the same team as Yasuo, she decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 48.3%. This signals that there is a bad synergy between Yasuo and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Yasuo. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Gwen allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Yasuo and Gwen together, you probably will not be giving your team enough crowd control. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Yasuo to synergize with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Yasuo and Gwen synergy build consist of Blade of The Ruined King, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Kraken Slayer. When Yasuo bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gwen than with many other typical builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 48.3% when playing alongside Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Yasuo and Gwen pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.3% winrate overall.
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