Gnar vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Gnar
based on 2,083 Gnar vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Gnar vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several significant Gnar against Nocturne matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between this set of champions. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nocturne’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nocturne. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Gnar or Nocturne?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Nocturne, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Nocturneas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter for Nocturne. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Nocturne during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often accumulates much more CS compared to Nocturne. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Nocturne build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nocturne as Gnar, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Gnar vs Nocturne fights, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
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