Gnar vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Gnar
based on 1,496 Gnar vs Thresh matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Thresh Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Thresh Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Gnar vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Gnar versus Thresh counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Thresh..
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Thresh. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Thresh
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Who is Better, Gnar or Thresh?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when taking on Thresh, with a 49.4% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes an ok counter for Thresh.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Thresh, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Thresh. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Thresh matchups, Thresh is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Thresh. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Thresh.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar to counter Thresh during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often racks up much more CS relative to Thresh. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Thresh build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Thresh than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 49.4% when countering Thresh with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Thresh 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 runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Thresh LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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