Gnar vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Gnar
based on 537 Gnar vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Gnar vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Gnar vs. Kassadin counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kassadin..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Gnar or Kassadin?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Kassadin, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter for Kassadin.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Kassadin, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Kassadinas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Kassadin.
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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 Kassadin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kassadin. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Kassadin build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs Kassadin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 48.6% when countering Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Kassadin as Gnar, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gnar vs Kassadin battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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