Gnar vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Gnar
based on 476 Gnar vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Naafiri
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.
Gnar vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Gnar versus Naafiri counter statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Naafiri..
Gnar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Naafiri. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Gnar or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Naafiri, with a 48.9% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Naafiri.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Naafiri, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Naafirias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Naafiri. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Naafiri. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Naafiri build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Naafiri than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.9% battling Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Naafiri as Gnar, you should equip 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 picked for Gnar vs Naafiri counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.9% winrate overall.
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