How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Gwen · 44.38% win rate over 468 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Even / skill | At level 1 you have one ability and no aura so you can't all-in — but neither can she, so just farm and set up your level-2 spike. |
| Level 2 | Mordekaiser | Q + W online lets you cone-smash and bank a shield for a short trade before her W mist and E dash exist to answer it, and her dash is on a long cooldown so she can't reset. |
| Level 3 | Gwen | With W Hallowed Mist up she's untargetable to your Q and E from outside, her Q true-damages through your shield, and her E kites your aura — she owns levels 4-5. |
| Levels 4-5 | Mordekaiser | Realm of Death banishes her into a 1v1 where her team can't peel; E-pull, bank W, and grind Darkness Rise on her stolen-stat self — your hardest spike and only clean kill. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Even with R, her W untargetability and her own item timing mean you only get her on a clean pick — across the lane the targeting and scaling favor her. |
| First item | Gwen | Her Q snips percent-true-damage that ignores your max-HP stacking and W heal, so your tanky trades stop working as she itemizes. |
| Two+ items | Gwen | Riftmaker plus her on-hit healing make her unkillable in extended fights and she hard-outscales your flat late-game — at 2+ items the duel is hers. |
"Levels 1-3 are your only honest window. Level 1, just farm — one ability, no aura, no all-in for either of you. At 2-3 with Q + W banked you can cone-smash her on the wave and force a short trade her early kit can't answer: her W mist isn't up to vanish into and her E dash is on a long cooldown, so she can't reset the trade. Land Q on her to start Darkness Rise, but don't dump E chasing poke — hold it for the level-6 all-in."
The full Mordekaiser vs Gwen 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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