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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stats shown here show several significant Gnar against Veigar matchup stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Veigar, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter to Veigar.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Veigar, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Veigaras his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. 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 overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Veigar. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Veigar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Veigar during both the early game 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 tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Veigar. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need 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, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Veigar build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Veigar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 48.3% when playing against Veigar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Veigar 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Gnar vs Veigar counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% winrate overall.
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