What is the best build for Hwei?

We do not publish a best build for Hwei, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Hwei mid build on patch 16.14 is Blackfire Torch, Shadowflame and Liandry's Torment, in 80 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Hwei?

The most recorded Hwei mid rune page on patch 16.14 takes Arcane Comet out of Sorcery, with Manaflow Band, Transcendence and Scorch beside it and Presence of Mind and Cut Down out of Precision. Players who ran it won 49.2% of 949 games, range 46.0% to 52.4%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Hwei?

Recorded Hwei mid players max Q, then E, then W. 411 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Hwei build, patch 16.14

3,099 games of Hwei recorded on patch 16.14, across mid, bot, support, top and jungle.

Win rate

50.5% of mid games this patch

Pick rate

2.3% of mid games

Games

1,761 mid, patch 16.14

Rank in role

14 of 109 mid champions

Win impact against the average mid pick on patch 16.14: +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.4 to 1.8) 1,761 games Pooled

What most Hwei mid players build, patch 16.14

Build Blackfire Torch, Shadowflame and Liandry's Torment, and run Arcane Comet

The rune page they run

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Precision

Shards

949 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 411 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

80 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 53% (range 42-63) · 80 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Hwei mid is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 1,761 games, of which 889 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: mid, bot, support and top, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.2 per 100 vs the mid average · 1,761 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (1,628 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (+2.0, range -9.7 to +13.7)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Hwei players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Hwei, mid

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 6 of them cleared 30 games.

Blackfire Torch, Shadowflame and Liandry's Torment
52.5% 80 games
Blackfire Torch, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame
59.0% 78 games
Blackfire Torch, Hextech Rocketbelt and Shadowflame
53.6% 56 games
Blackfire Torch, Zhonya's Hourglass and Liandry's Torment
66.0% 53 games
Blackfire Torch, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass
69.4% 36 games
Blackfire Torch, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame
40.6% 32 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Hwei, bot

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Blackfire Torch, Shadowflame and Liandry's Torment
47.8% 69 games
Blackfire Torch, Hextech Rocketbelt and Shadowflame
60.7% 61 games
Blackfire Torch, Rabadon's Deathcap and Shadowflame
63.4% 41 games

Hwei, support

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No support build recorded yet

We have 130 games of Hwei support on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

Hwei, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 49 games of Hwei top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Hwei players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Hwei, mid

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 6 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

949 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Precision

Shards

949 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Deathfire Touch Sorcery with Precision

446 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

111 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Resolve

72 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Precision

49 games

Deathfire Touch Sorcery with Resolve

32 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 50.4% 1,136 games
Deathfire Touch: 50.4% 500 games
Summon Aery: 62.5% 80 games

8 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Hwei, bot

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 3 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

653 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Precision

Shards

653 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Deathfire Touch Sorcery with Precision

321 games

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Inspiration

118 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 51.0% 772 games
Deathfire Touch: 51.9% 349 games

7 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Hwei, support

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

48 games

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Precision

Shards

48 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Deathfire Touch Sorcery with Precision

31 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Arcane Comet: 50.7% 69 games
Deathfire Touch: 45.9% 37 games

6 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Hwei, top

5 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Deathfire Touch Sorcery with Precision

not enough games yet. 22 games so far, this needs 30. 22 games

Sorcery

Deathfire Touch

Precision

Shards

22 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Arcane Comet Sorcery with Precision

not enough games yet. 16 games so far, this needs 30. 16 games

Summon Aery Sorcery with Precision

not enough games yet. 4 games so far, this needs 30. 4 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Deathfire Touch: not enough games yet. 22 games so far, this needs 30. 22 games
Arcane Comet: not enough games yet. 19 games so far, this needs 30. 19 games
Summon Aery: not enough games yet. 4 games so far, this needs 30. 4 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

411 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Hwei mid skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 411 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

282 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Hwei bot skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 282 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W

Only 39 recorded games on patch 16.14. A soft read. Win comparisons only count games that ran long enough to finish the max: 89% of 37 Q-first games and 100% of 1 E-first games. Short games are missing from both sides, and short games are usually decided ones.

not enough games

Hwei support skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 39 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W
E		E						E		E		E	E					E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 E

Almost nobody maxed E first, so there is nothing to compare. -1 wins per 100 games (range -14 to 12) 34 games Measured 33 games maxed Q first, 1 game maxed E first.

Hwei, top

Not enough top level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 17 games so far, this needs 30.

Hwei top has 49 games recorded, but only 17 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Hwei mid build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Blackfire Torch: 11:08 1,142 games
Liandry's Torment: 18:46 906 games
Shadowflame: 20:43 1,918 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Hwei?

The opponents Hwei mid loses to most and the teammates Hwei gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

104 more opponents sit under 50 games against Hwei and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Hwei opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Hwei teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Hwei rank?

Every role we recorded Hwei in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Hwei by role

mid B +0.2 wins per 100 games (range -1.4 to 1.8) 1,761 games Pooled: 53 1,761 games
bot B +0.5 wins per 100 games (range -1.3 to 2.2) 1,158 games Pooled: 52 1,158 games
support C 0.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.2 to 2.1) 130 games Pooled: 45 130 games
top C -0.3 wins per 100 games (range -2.4 to 1.9) 49 games Pooled: 44 49 games
jungle not enough games yet. 1 game so far, this needs 30.: not scored 1 game

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Hwei

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.

Other mid champions on patch 16.14

Highest scored first. The whole mid ranking, with the games behind every row, is on the tier list.

Every mid champion we have games for.

Recomputed 24 July 2026. Champion, item and rune names from Data Dragon 16.14.1. How we measure this.

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