Gnar vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Gnar
based on 1,147 Gnar vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Gnar vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Gnar against Kayle matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kayle..
Gnar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Kayle. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Kayle
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Who is Better, Gnar or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Kayle, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter for Kayle.
While Gnar does have a much lower winrate than Kayle, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Kayle matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter to Kayle. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to counter Kayle during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kayle. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Gnar versus Kayle build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Kayle than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 45.2% battling Kayle with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Kayle 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 runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Kayle counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% winrate overall.
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