Gnar vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Gnar
based on 2,369 Gnar vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Akali
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Gnar vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Gnar vs. Akali matchup stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Akali..
Gnar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Akali
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Who is Better, Gnar or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Akali, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Akali.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Akalias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Akali. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter to Akali. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to counter Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average picks up a similar amount of CS as Akali. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Akali build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Akali as Gnar, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Gnar vs Akali counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% winrate overall.
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