Gnar vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Gnar
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Gnar vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Gnar vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Gnar versus Talon counter stats that may help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Talon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Talon..
Gnar typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Talon. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Talon
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Who is Better, Gnar or Talon?
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 Talon, with a 47.4% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Talon.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Talon, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Talonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Talon matchups, Talon is the better champ with a 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 to Talon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Talon. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gnar versus Talon build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Talon than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Talon with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Talon 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Gnar vs Talon LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Talon as Gnar are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.