Kayle vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Kayle
based on 1,147 Kayle vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Gnar
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Kayle vs. Gnar counter stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gnar..
Kayle typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Gnar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Gnar
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Who is Better, Kayle or Gnar?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually wins when taking on Gnar, with a 54.8% win rate. As a result, Kayle makes a great counter to Gnar.
While Kayle does have a much higher win rate than Gnar, when facing one another, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Kayle into Gnaras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kayle has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kayle vs Gnar matchups, Kayle is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Kayle is a great counter to Gnar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kayle against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kayle in order to counter Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Gnar. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayle versus Gnar build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better against Gnar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Kayle boasted an average win rate of 54.8% battling Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Gnar as Kayle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kayle vs Gnar battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 54.8% winrate overall.
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