Gnar vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Gnar
based on 669 Gnar vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Shen
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 Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Gnar vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some strategic Gnar versus Shen matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Shen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shen..
Gnar usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Shen. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Shen
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Who is Better, Gnar or Shen?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Shen, with a 44.8% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Shen.
While Gnar does have a much lower winrate compared to Shen, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Shenas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Shen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Shen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Shen. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Shen build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better against Shen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 44.8% battling Shen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Shen 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 sets players picked for Gnar vs Shen clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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