Gnar vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Gnar
based on 283 Gnar vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Gnar vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some important Gnar vs. Elise matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Elise’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Gnar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Elise
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Who is Better, Gnar or Elise?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Elise, with a 50.2% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter to Elise.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate than Elise, when facing one another, Gnar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Eliseas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Elise. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Elise matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a decent counter to Elise. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to counter Elise during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually picks up much more CS relative to Elise. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar versus Elise build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Elise than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when countering Elise with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Elise as Gnar, Gnar players 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 runes we have analyed for Gnar vs Elise LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.2% win rate overall.
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