Gnar vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Gnar
based on 571 Gnar vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Gnar vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Gnar against Gangplank counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gangplank’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gangplank..
Gnar often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Gangplank. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Gnar or Gangplank?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually wins when trying to fight Gangplank, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter for Gangplank.
While Gnar does have a higher winrate compared to Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Gnar into Gangplankas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gangplank. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Gangplank matchups, Gnar 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.
Gnar is a good counter for Gangplank. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Gangplank 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Gangplank. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Gangplank build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Gangplank than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Gangplank with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Gangplank 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. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gnar vs Gangplank matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Gangplank as Gnar are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.