Gnar vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Gnar
based on 577 Gnar vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Gnar vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Gnar vs. Sivir matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Sivir’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Sivir..
Gnar typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Sivir. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Sivir
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Who is Better, Gnar or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually wins when facing off against Sivir, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter to Sivir.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate compared to Sivir, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Siviras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Sivir matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a decent counter to Sivir. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Sivir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Sivir. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar versus Sivir build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Sivir than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 51.8% battling Sivir with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Sivir as Gnar, Gnar players should take 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 that we analyzed for Gnar vs Sivir battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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