Heimerdinger vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Heimerdinger
based on 568 Heimerdinger vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Heimerdinger vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Heimerdinger vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Heimerdinger against Gnar
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Advice to Win Against Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Heimerdinger vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Heimerdinger in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Heimerdinger versus Gnar matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Heimerdinger may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gnar..
Heimerdinger normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Gnar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Heimerdinger and Gnar
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Who is Better, Heimerdinger or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Heimerdinger usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gnar, with a 50.4% win rate. As a result, Heimerdinger makes an ok counter to Gnar.
While Heimerdinger does have a higher winrate compared to Gnar, when they face off with one another, Heimerdinger also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Heimerdinger into Gnaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Heimerdinger has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Heimerdinger vs Gnar matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Heimerdinger is a decent counter to Gnar. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Heimerdinger against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Heimerdinger in order to counter Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Heimerdinger usually racks up a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Heimerdinger versus Gnar build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Liandry's Torment. When Heimerdinger included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Gnar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Heimerdinger had an average winrate of 50.4% battling Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Gnar as Heimerdinger, Heimerdinger players should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Heimerdinger vs Gnar matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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