Gnar vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Gnar
based on 1,216 Gnar vs Lee Sin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Gnar vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Gnar versus Lee Sin matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lee Sin..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Lee Sin
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Who is Better, Gnar or Lee Sin?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually wins when playing against Lee Sin, with a 51.7% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter for Lee Sin.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Lee Sinas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Lee Sin matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gnar is a decent counter to Lee Sin. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Lee Sin during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically racks up much more CS compared to Lee Sin. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Lee Sin build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs Lee Sin than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Lee Sin with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Lee Sin 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 builds players picked for Gnar vs Lee Sin counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% win rate overall.
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