Caitlyn with Gwen
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Gwen
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Caitlyn Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Gwen
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Advice to Understand How Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Caitlyn Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gwen. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gwen helps Caitlyn perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is paired with Gwen, she sees a small decrease in her total damage output. This change may indicate that Gwen doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Gwen on the same side, she typically receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gwen does a decent job of covering Caitlyn in teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Caitlyn that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Gwen is a not very good ally for Caitlyn. By locking into the same side as Caitlyn, she lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 48.0%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Caitlyn and Gwen that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gwen has a lower difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players don't need to be cautious when arranging Gwen comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Caitlyn and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of cover. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Caitlyn to work well with Gwen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Caitlyn and Gwen synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and The Collector. When Caitlyn included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Gwen than with most other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average winrate of 48.0% helping carry Gwen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Gwen with Caitlyn are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.