Gnar vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Gnar
based on 922 Gnar vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Amumu
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.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Gnar vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Gnar versus Amumu counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Amumu’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Amumu..
Gnar often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Amumu
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Who is Better, Gnar or Amumu?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when facing off against Amumu, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Amumu.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Amumu, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Amumuas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Amumu. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average picks up much more CS compared to Amumu. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Amumu build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Amumu than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing against Amumu with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Amumu as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gnar vs Amumu counterpicks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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