Gnar vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Gnar
based on 568 Gnar vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Gnar vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Gnar versus Heimerdinger counter stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Heimerdinger’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Heimerdinger..
Gnar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Heimerdinger. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Gnar or Heimerdinger?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Heimerdinger, with a 49.6% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter to Heimerdinger.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Heimerdinger, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Heimerdinger. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Heimerdinger 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Heimerdinger build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Heimerdinger than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.6% battling Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Heimerdinger 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 players used for Gnar vs Heimerdinger fights, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
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