How to win lane as Olaf against Gwen · 53.88% win rate over 464 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Olaf | Q-slow into auto wins first contact and Gwen's level 1 is weak with no Mist and E-dash as her only out. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | Even Q-poke trade — her Q true damage answers your auto pressure before your E combo is fully online. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Skill window — your E true-damage burst trades with her Q poke; it comes down to who lands their spacing. |
| Levels 4-5 | Olaf | Your Q-reset perma-slow plus W-omnivamp out-sustains her poke and she can't kite a slowed target yet. |
| Level 6 | Gwen | Her W Hallowed Mist makes her untargetable so your Q and E whiff, and Ragnarok's CC-immunity does nothing to her healing. |
| First item | Gwen | She Q-true-damages and heals from inside Mist; her first-item AP spike beats your bruiser core in extended fights. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Skill — she out-scales but you can still spike a kill on her cooldowns or end the game before her second item lands. |
Gwen is a brutal level 1-3 for you to punish — her W Mist isn't online yet and her E-dash burns her only escape. Land Q to slow her, walk up, and E her for the guaranteed true-damage chunk; your passive attack speed ramps as you take her Q poke, so longer trades favour you. Pick your axe back up to refund Q and re-slow her if she tries to walk away. Just don't dump E when she still has E-dash and a wave to peel into.
The full Olaf 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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