Gwen·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Gwen Top build, you should take Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Conqueror as your keystone, followed by Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, as well as Bone Plating and Unflinching in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Riftmaker as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Nashor's Tooth. For your last 3 items, you should build Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass and finish with Shadowflame. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - E - W. Right now, this build has 54.9% winrate over 24 978 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Gwen Top build would be to take Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Nashor's Tooth, which you should build first, followed by Plated Steelcaps as your second item and Riftmaker as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame. The skill order for this build is Q - E - W. In the current patch, this build has a 54.5% win rate over 13 554 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Rod of Ages as your first item, then Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Riftmaker as a third item. You want to finish the build with Nashor's Tooth, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - E - W. This build is currently sitting at a 52.0% win rate across 475 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Gwen Top build in the current patch, try Ghost and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand as your primary rune tree, and Bone Plating with Unflinching as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Nashor's Tooth as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Riftmaker as third item. The last 3 options are Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil. The ability order for this build is Q - E - W. As of the current patch, this build has a 48.0% win rate over 298 matches played.

Situational Gwen Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Gwen build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.