Gnar vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Gnar
based on 299 Gnar vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Gnar vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Gnar against Kog'Maw matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kog'Maw..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Kog'Maw. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Gnar or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Kog'Maw, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter for Kog'Maw.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Kog'Maw, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gnar into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw 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 teamfights.
Gnar is a bad counter to Kog'Maw. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Kog'Maw.
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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 Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often gets a similar amount of CS as Kog'Maw. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Kog'Maw build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kog'Maw than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.8% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Kog'Maw as Gnar, you should take 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 builds players chose for Gnar vs Kog'Maw clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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