Gnar vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Gnar
based on 1,789 Gnar vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Gnar vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Gnar in LoL
The stats provided here show some significant Gnar versus Hwei counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei..
Gnar often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Hwei. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Hwei
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Who is Better, Gnar or Hwei?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually wins when facing off against Hwei, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter to Hwei.
While Gnar does have a higher winrate compared to Hwei, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Gnar into Hweias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Hwei matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a good counter to Hwei. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Hwei. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Gnar versus Hwei build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Hwei than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 53.0% when countering Hwei with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Hwei 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 rune builds players chose for Gnar vs Hwei battles, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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