How to win lane as Gwen against Sion · 54.63% win rate over 1,263 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You are both weak level-1s — he has only a slow charged Q knockup and you have a clunky cone Q, so just deny his last-hits and dodge the windup. |
| Level 2 | Gwen | Your level-2 tool plus passive %-max-HP on-hit damage starts chipping his big bar faster than his E poke chips yours. |
| Level 3 | Gwen | Q+E lets you snip his max HP with the true-damage center, then E-reset out before his long-range E poke returns. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | Pre-W you have no untargetability against his ranged E poke and he can shove — farm and wait for 6 rather than forcing. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Needlework and Hallowed Mist flip the lane: mist his charged Q so the knockup whiffs while you keep snipping his HP down. |
| First item | Gwen | Riftmaker or Nashor's makes your %-HP magic and true snip melt the armor and HP he builds — your hardest tank-shredding window. |
| Two+ items | Gwen | He out-scales nothing about your 1v1 — every tank item feeds your %-max-HP Q; only respect his teamfight knockup, not the duel. |
Sion can only really hurt you with a fully charged Q knockup, so never stand still in melee while he winds it up — sidestep the slow charge and a tap-cast Q is harmless. His E is long-range poke that slows and shreds your MR, but it can't out-damage what your passive healing restores once you trade back in melee. At level 1 you are both soft, so just farm; by level 3 your Q+E lets you snip a chunk of his big HP bar and E-reset out before his E poke connects.
The full Gwen vs Sion 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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