Gnar vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Gnar
based on 693 Gnar vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Gnar vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several valuable Gnar against Azir matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Gnar often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Azir
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Who is Better, Gnar or Azir?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually wins when facing off against Azir, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter to Azir.
While Gnar does have a higher winrate than Azir, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Aziras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Azir matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Gnar is a decent counter for Azir. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Azir during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Azir. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Gnar versus Azir build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Azir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Azir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Azir as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gnar vs Azir matchups, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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