Gnar vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Gnar
based on 1,610 Gnar vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Gnar vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Gnar vs. Varus counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Varus’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Varus..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Varus. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Varus
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Who is Better, Gnar or Varus?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Varus, with a 48.7% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter to Varus.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Varus, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Varusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Varus. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Varus build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. Varus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Varus 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Gnar vs Varus counter picks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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