Gnar vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Gnar
based on 921 Gnar vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Gnar vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Gnar vs. Hecarim counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Hecarim..
Gnar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Hecarim. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Gnar or Hecarim?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when playing against Hecarim, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Hecarim.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Hecarim, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Hecarimas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually accumulates much more CS as Hecarim. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gnar versus Hecarim build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 49.7% when countering Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Hecarim 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 used for Gnar vs Hecarim matchups, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hecarim as Gnar are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.