How to win lane as Gwen against Pantheon · 52.96% win rate over 355 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | Pantheon's passive blocks one of your autos every few seconds and his point-click W stun sets up an empowered Q spear you can't answer with only a cone Q yet. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | He's still the lane bully and you're a melee with no mist or E mobility -- his W-into-Q all-in beats anything you can do back at level 2-3. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | You finally have Q poke and E for resets, but his passive block and W stun keep the trade even at best -- farm and contest, don't commit. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | His Q poke is fading and your ability sustain eats the chip, but you're still pre-mist -- it's a coinflip window, so don't overstay. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Needlework plus Hallowed Mist arrives -- bait his W stun, drop mist so he's outside it and you go untargetable, then R-slow and out-sustain his burst. |
| First item | Gwen | Riftmaker/Nashor's lets your %-max-HP Snip and E on-hit range win extended duels his mana-hungry Q poke can no longer sustain. |
| Two+ items | Gwen | Pantheon hard-falls-off into items while you scale -- your 1v1 and %-HP shred own the map; only his global R still matters. |
Levels 1-3 belong to Pantheon and you have to respect it: his passive blocks one of your Thousand Cuts autos every few seconds, his W is a point-click stun, and a 5-stack empowered Q spear will chunk you before your cone Q comes online. Don't trade back -- farm with the tip of Snip Snip! at max range and eat a little poke rather than feeding his all-in. You have no Hallowed Mist and no E reset yet, so if he W-stuns you onto a Q there's nothing to bail you out -- soak XP and wait for 6.
The full Gwen vs Pantheon 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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