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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Gnar against Fiora counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Fiora..
Gnar normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Fiora. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Fiora, with a 48.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter to Fiora.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Fiora, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Fioraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter 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 Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Fiora. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Fiora.
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Fiora during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average gets a similar amount of CS compared to Fiora. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Fiora build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Fiora than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 48.1% when countering Fiora with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Fiora 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Fiora counterpicks, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% winrate overall.
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