Gnar vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Gnar
based on 1,683 Gnar vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Gnar vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several important Gnar versus Diana matchup statistics that can help you explain the distinctions between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Diana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Diana
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Who is Better, Gnar or Diana?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Diana, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter for Diana.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Diana, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Dianaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Diana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Diana matchups, Diana is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Diana. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Diana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically accumulates more CS compared to Diana. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need 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 have in your Gnar versus Diana build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when facing Diana than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing against Diana with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Diana as Gnar, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gnar vs Diana fights, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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