Gnar vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Gnar
based on 890 Gnar vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Aphelios
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 Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Gnar vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Gnar versus Aphelios matchup statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between these two champions. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Aphelios..
Gnar often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Aphelios. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Gnar or Aphelios?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Aphelios.
While Gnar does have a higher winrate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Apheliosas his relative depth means that 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 Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Aphelios matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gnar is a decent counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Aphelios. Champions who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Gnar versus Aphelios build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Aphelios than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Aphelios with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Aphelios as Gnar, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gnar vs Aphelios LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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