Gwen

Every weapon Gwen wields once belonged to the act of making her. The scissors, needles, and thread that a craftsman used to stitch her together as a doll now answer to her, animated alongside her by a magic she has yet to fully grasp.

A Small Protection

Each step she takes carries the affection of the person who built her, and she guards that memory as something far too valuable to overlook. An old magic known as the Hallowed Mist surrounds her and grants her tools a measure of shelter: while standing inside it, Gwen is nearly impossible for foes to reach, and her ability of that same name calls the veil forward to protect her from whatever lies beyond its border, though enemies who enter it can still locate her.

Small Cuts, Whole Cloth

Her damage builds gradually, much like her signature passive. A Thousand Cuts layers bonus magic damage onto her attacks, scaled to the target’s health, and restores some of that health to her, so steady pressure counts for more than any one blow. Snip Snip! lets her slice through a cone up to six times, inflicting true damage on whatever sits at its center, while Skip ‘n Slash propels her forward and grants a short burst of bonus attack speed, range, and on-hit magic damage. That burst refreshes whenever she lands a hit. Her ultimate, Needlework, hurls a damaging, slowing needle that can be cast two more times, with every throw adding to her passive.

Against the wreckage of the Shadow Isles, a blighted archipelago swallowed by the Black Mist, Gwen’s resolve feels almost like rebellion. She is a small, newly awakened creature choosing to defend whatever goodness remains in a land built on loss, equipped with little more than a maker’s old sewing kit. In the top lane she holds her ground as a Fighter whose strength, unusually, comes from mana as much as from brute force.