Gnar vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Gnar
based on 1,701 Gnar vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Gnar vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Gnar against Malphite counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malphite..
Gnar normally has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Malphite
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Who is Better, Gnar or Malphite?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Malphite, with a 45.6% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter for Malphite.
While Gnar does have a much lower win rate than Malphite, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Gnar into Malphiteas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a bad counter for Malphite. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Malphite.
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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 Malphite during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically picks up a similar amount of CS as Malphite. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gnar versus Malphite build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Malphite than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Malphite with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Malphite 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 sets players chose for Gnar vs Malphite face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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