Gnar vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Gnar
based on 3,992 Gnar vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Gnar vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some critical Gnar vs. Lux matchup statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lux’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Lux..
Gnar often has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Lux. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Lux
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Who is Better, Gnar or Lux?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Lux, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Lux.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Lux, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Luxas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Lux. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Lux during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually picks up more CS relative to Lux. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar versus Lux build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Lux than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Lux with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Lux as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Gnar vs Lux fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.6% win rate overall.
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