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.
Purchasing Vision Wards can help you detect Evelynn's location in order to prepare for her ambushes.
A large share of Evelynn's threat is in her charm, 'Allure.' Protect allies marked with 'Allure' or, if you are marked, make sure allies are between you and where Evelynn may attack from.
If you suspect Evelynn is about to ambush one of your teammates, let them know by pinging the minimap and typing in chat.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some vital Gnar against Evelynn matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Evelynn’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Evelynn..
Gnar often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Evelynn. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Evelynn, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter for Evelynn.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Evelynn, when facing one another, Gnar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Evelynnas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Evelynn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Evelynn matchups, Evelynn is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Evelynn. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Evelynn.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Evelynn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often accumulates much more CS relative to Evelynn. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Evelynn build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Evelynn than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.1% when playing against Evelynn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Evelynn 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Evelynn fights, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
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