Anivia vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Anivia
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Anivia vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Anivia vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Anivia
Tips for Playing as Anivia against Gnar
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Advice to Win Against Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Anivia vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Anivia in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Anivia vs. Gnar matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the pair. Anivia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Anivia may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gnar..
Anivia normally has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gnar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Anivia and Gnar
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Who is Better, Anivia or Gnar?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Anivia usually fairs equally well when taking on Gnar, with a 49.0% win rate. Therefore, Anivia makes an ok counter to Gnar.
While Anivia does have a lower winrate compared to Gnar, when they face off with one another, Anivia also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Anivia into Gnaras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Anivia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Anivia vs Gnar matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Anivia is a somewhat poor counter for Gnar. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Anivia against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Anivia in order to counter Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Anivia most often racks up a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Anivia versus Gnar build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Anivia bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs. Gnar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Anivia boasted an average win rate of 49.0% battling Gnar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Gnar as Anivia, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Presence of Mind, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Anivia vs Gnar face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gnar as Anivia are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.