Gnar vs Nasus
How to Beat Nasus as Gnar
based on 1,281 Gnar vs Nasus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Nasus Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Nasus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nasus as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Nasus
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 Nasus
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
Gnar vs Nasus Counter Stats
How to Counter Nasus with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Gnar vs. Nasus counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nasus..
Gnar often has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nasus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Nasus
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Who is Better, Gnar or Nasus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Nasus, with a 46.4% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter to Nasus.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Nasus, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Nasusas 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 Nasus. 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 in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Nasus matchups, Nasus 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 bad counter to Nasus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Nasus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Nasus. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Gnar versus Nasus build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Nasus than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 46.4% when countering Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Nasus as Gnar, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Gnar vs Nasus face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
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