How to win lane as Gwen against Heimerdinger · 49.58% win rate over 119 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Heimerdinger | No W yet and no all-in — his turret plus lightning grenade poke me off the wave while I can only soak XP at max range. |
| Level 2 | Heimerdinger | His rockets and turret beam out-range everything I have at level 2; stepping up to last-hit just feeds him free poke. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With Q+E up I can dash in when his grenade is down, but he rebuilds the turret wall fast — it's a coinflip trade window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Lane-control window: I trade around his grenade cooldown and bank small leads, but neither of us can hard-commit yet. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Needlework slows his kite and Hallowed Mist makes me untargetable to his turrets and rockets — I drop W on him and snip uncontested. |
| First item | Gwen | Riftmaker/Nashor's lets %-HP Snip and on-hit E dive past the nest and burst him inside one mist window, with E refunding for the chase. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Even on paper, but his full turret nest plus rocket poke out-zones my engage if the game runs long — I have to close it first. |
Heimerdinger owns the opening — his turrets wall me off the minions and his Hextech Micro-Rockets plus lightning grenade chip me down long before I have Hallowed Mist to hide in. I have no W untargetability and no real all-in pre-6, so I just eat poke if I walk up to last-hit under his beams. Soak XP at max range, grab the minions I can reach without diving the turret, and do NOT facecheck his grenade — its stun catches me before I can dash and resets the whole zone. This is a survival window, not a trade window.
The full Gwen vs Heimerdinger report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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