Gnar vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Gnar
based on 1,271 Gnar vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Gnar vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some strategic Gnar vs. Garen matchup stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen..
Gnar often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Garen
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Who is Better, Gnar or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 51.1% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a good counter for Garen.
While Gnar does have a higher winrate compared to Garen, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Garenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Garen matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a decent counter to Garen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Garen during both the early game 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Garen. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well 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 do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gnar versus Garen build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Garen than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 51.1% battling Garen with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Garen 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 Garen fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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