Gnar vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Gnar
based on 685 Gnar vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Gnar vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some strategic Gnar against Illaoi matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Illaoi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Gnar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Gnar or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Illaoi, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Illaoi.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Illaoias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash 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 Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Illaoi during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Illaoi. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gnar versus Illaoi build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Illaoi than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Illaoi as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gnar vs Illaoi fights, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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