Gnar vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Gnar
based on 975 Gnar vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Gnar vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some critical Gnar versus Janna counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Janna’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Janna. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Gnar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes more damage than Janna. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Janna
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Who is Better, Gnar or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Janna, with a 47.0% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Janna, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Jannaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Janna. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Janna. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar to counter Janna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often accumulates much more CS as Janna. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Janna build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Janna than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing against Janna with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Janna as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Gnar vs Janna counter picks, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.0% win rate overall.
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