Azir vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Azir
based on 693 Azir vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Gnar
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Gnar
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.
Azir vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Azir vs. Gnar matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Gnar..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Gnar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Gnar
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Who is Better, Azir or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when taking on Gnar, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Azir makes a poor counter for Gnar.
While Azir does have a lower win rate than Gnar, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Azir into Gnaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Gnar matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Gnar. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Gnar build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 48.5% when playing against Gnar with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Gnar as Azir, Azir players should use the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Azir vs Gnar counters, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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