Gnar vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Gnar
based on 637 Gnar vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Alistar
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 Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Gnar vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Gnar vs. Alistar matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Gnar typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Alistar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Alistar
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Who is Better, Gnar or Alistar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Alistar.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Alistar, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Alistaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Alistar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Alistar. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often gets much more CS as Alistar. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Gnar versus Alistar build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Alistar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.7% battling Alistar with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Alistar as Gnar, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Gnar vs Alistar counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% win rate overall.
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