Gnar vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Gnar
based on 1,170 Gnar vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Gnar vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here feature some vital Gnar against Irelia counter statistics that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia..
Gnar typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Irelia
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Who is Better, Gnar or Irelia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Irelia, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter to Irelia.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Gnar into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Irelia. 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 Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a terribly counter to Irelia. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Irelia 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Irelia. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar versus Irelia build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Irelia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Irelia with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Irelia 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 players chose for Gnar vs Irelia fights, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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