Talon vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Talon
based on 879 Talon vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Gnar
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
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.
Talon vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Talon in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some critical Talon against Gnar counter stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gnar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Talon usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Gnar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Talon and Gnar
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Who is Better, Talon or Gnar?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Talon usually wins when playing against Gnar, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Talon makes a good counter to Gnar.
While Talon does have a higher win rate than Gnar, when on opposite teams, Talon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Talon into Gnaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This 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 in League of Legends, in Talon vs Gnar matchups, Talon is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Talon is an above average counter to Gnar. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Talon against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Talon in order to counter Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Talon versus Gnar build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Talon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Talon had an average winrate of 52.6% when playing against Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Gnar as Talon, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Talon vs Gnar counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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