Yasuo vs Gwen Counter Pick

Gwen holds up better on every defensive measure. Her armor sits at 39 to Yasuo’s 32, and her final total reaches 122.3 against his 110.2, while her health is 2,575 compared with his 2,460. Even so, he still wins 57.01% of his games across 314 matches on patch 16.13.1.

The gap comes down to how each one is permitted to engage. Hallowed Mist shields her from anything that stays outside it, and the only way to answer it is to step inside, which Sweeping Blade lets Yasuo do at no cost. He dashes through a target, and nearby minions give him somewhere to escape, so the space she relies on to disengage is the space he feels most at home in. Skip ‘n Slash is her own dash, but it is short and designed to start a fight, not to get her out of one.

Her itemization is harder to pin down because of the mix of damage types. A Thousand Cuts adds bonus magic damage scaled to the target’s health and restores some of her health from that damage, and Snip Snip! deals true damage at the center of its cone. Her damage output is therefore split between types, whereas his is plain physical damage that has to get past high armor. Way of the Wanderer offsets this for him by increasing his critical strike chance and generating a shield each time he moves. The difficulty ratings of 10 and 5 show where the execution risk falls.