Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Ahri vs. Gnar counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Gnar..
Ahri usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Gnar. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when taking on Gnar, with a 50.3% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes an ok counter to Gnar.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate than Gnar, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Gnar.
Furthermore, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Gnar matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter to Gnar. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Gnar.
If you would like to truly master Ahri in order to counter Gnar during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Gnar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Gnar with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Gnar as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Gnar fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.3% win rate overall.
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