Gnar vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Gnar
based on 1,974 Gnar vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Gnar vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Gnar vs. Master Yi matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Master Yi..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Gnar or Master Yi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Master Yi, with a 44.8% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter to Master Yi.
While Gnar does have a much lower winrate than Master Yi, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Master Yias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a bad counter for Master Yi. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to counter Master Yi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average picks up much more CS compared to Master Yi. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Gnar versus Master Yi build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Master Yi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 44.8% when countering Master Yi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Master Yi as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Gnar vs Master Yi counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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