Gnar vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Gnar
based on 1,754 Gnar vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Gnar vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Gnar against Graves matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Graves..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Graves. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Graves
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Who is Better, Gnar or Graves?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when playing against Graves, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes an ok counter for Graves.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Graves, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Graves. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average gets much more CS as Graves. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Graves build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Graves than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Graves as Gnar, you 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 combinations players picked for Gnar vs Graves battles, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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