Gnar vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Gnar
based on 2,344 Gnar vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Gnar vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some valuable Gnar against Brand matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Brand..
Gnar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Brand. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Brand
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Who is Better, Gnar or Brand?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Brand, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter for Brand.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a much 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 bad counter for Brand. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Brand during both the laning 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 presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually accumulates more CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Gnar versus Brand build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Brand than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 47.0% when countering Brand with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Brand as Gnar, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gnar vs Brand fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.0% winrate overall.
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