Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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 provided here clarify some vital Dr. Mundo against Gnar matchup stats that may help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gnar..
Dr. Mundo typically has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Gnar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually wins when facing off against Gnar, with a 55.8% win rate. Therefore, Dr. Mundo makes a fantastic counter to Gnar.
While Dr. Mundo does have a much higher win rate compared to Gnar, when facing one another, Dr. Mundo also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Dr. Mundo into Gnar.
Furthermore, Dr. Mundo also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo vs Gnar matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a great counter for Gnar. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Dr. Mundo against Gnar.
If you would like to truly master Dr. Mundo to counter Gnar 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo often racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Gnar. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Dr. Mundo versus Gnar build include Sunfire Aegis, Heartsteel, and Titanic Hydra. When Dr. Mundo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Gnar than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Dr. Mundo boasted an average winrate of 55.8% when countering Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating Gnar as Dr. Mundo, Dr. Mundo players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Dr. Mundo vs Gnar face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.8% win rate overall.
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