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.
He gains speed while chasing in a straight line, but taking damage makes him lose that momentum.
Try to get inside his orbit, since his stars can't hurt you up close.
His stars disappear while stunned or silenced, giving you an easy opportunity to fight him.
His Starsurge ability can grow to cover a huge area - don't stay in the same place too long!
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Gnar vs. Aurelion Sol counter statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between these two champs. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aurelion Sol..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Aurelion Sol. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Aurelion Sol, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter to Aurelion Sol.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Aurelion Sol, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Aurelion Solas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Aurelion Sol. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Aurelion Sol matchups, Aurelion Sol is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a trash counter for Aurelion Sol. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Aurelion Sol.
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to counter Aurelion Sol during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Aurelion Sol. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Aurelion Sol build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Aurelion Sol than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Aurelion Sol with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Aurelion Sol as Gnar, Gnar players 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 players chose for Gnar vs Aurelion Sol clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Aurelion Sol as Gnar are given for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.