Gnar vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Gnar
based on 1,416 Gnar vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Gnar vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some vital Gnar vs. Zed matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Zed..
Gnar usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Zed. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Zed
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Who is Better, Gnar or Zed?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Zed, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter to Zed.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Zed, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Zedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champ 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 terribly counter for Zed. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Zed. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Gnar versus Zed build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Zed than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Zed with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Zed 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Gnar vs Zed counters, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.7% winrate overall.
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