Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Yuumi against Gwen counter stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Yuumi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yuumi may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gwen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Yuumi often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Gwen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yuumi usually loses when taking on Gwen, with a 43.8% win rate. As a result, Yuumi makes a bad counter to Gwen.
While Yuumi does have a much lower win rate compared to Gwen, when they face off with one another, Yuumi also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Yuumi into Gwen.
Furthermore, Yuumi has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Yuumi vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Yuumi is a bad counter to Gwen. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yuumi against Gwen.
To learn all of the intricacies of Yuumi in order to counter Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yuumi on average gets a lot less CS relative to Gwen. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Yuumi versus Gwen build include Mikael's Blessing, Ardent Censer, and Moonstone Renewer. When Yuumi incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Gwen than with most other common builds. In fact, Yuumi had an average winrate of 43.8% battling Gwen with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Gwen as Yuumi, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Font of Life, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Yuumi vs Gwen matchups, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Yuumi are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.