How to win lane as Gwen against Vayne · 50% win rate over 582 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | You're a weak level-1 cone Q with no mist, but she's an equally fragile carry who just wants to farm — neither side has a reason to commit, so it's a last-hit race. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Still a soft melee with one ability online; she has no incentive to fight either, so trade last-hits and deny her any Silver Bolts stacks. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Q plus E lets you contest, but she can Tumble the cone and reset the kite — it stays a genuine farm-race, not a kill lane. |
| Levels 4-5 | Vayne | Your worst window: no Hallowed Mist yet, so her third-hit Silver Bolts %-true and Tumble-kiting chip you with no untargetability to answer. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Needlework plus full Q-W-E flips it — mist her Condemn, stay untargetable through the knockback, and your %-HP Snip out-trades her paper frame. |
| First item | Gwen | Riftmaker/Nashor's is your real spike: E-dash past the Tumble, mist soaks the kite, and Thousand Cuts healing eats her DPS before the third bolt procs. |
| Two+ items | Vayne | She out-scales hard — full-build Silver Bolts true damage melts your HP and Final Hour's invis resets the Tumble, so play safe and group rather than duel. |
Neither of you wants to fight levels 1-3 — you're a clunky cone Q with no Hallowed Mist yet and she's a squishy hypercarry farming for items, so this is a true even race. Last-hit with the tip of Snip Snip and don't walk into her auto range to throw a Q she can just Tumble out of. Silver Bolts only hurt once she stacks the third hit on you, so deny her free poke and never let her land a free third-proc while you're cornered with no mist to hide in.
The full Gwen vs Vayne 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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