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.
LeBlanc's ultimate can create fake LeBlancs during her spellcast or, rarely, at a distant position.
The fake LeBlanc created at a distance will always run at the nearest Champion, cast a harmless spell, then immediately disappear.
Attacking LeBlanc first avoids most of her tricks, especially if she's recently used her dash, Distortion.
Stunning or silencing LeBlanc will prevent her from activating the return part of Distortion.
The stats shown on this page show some influential Gnar against LeBlanc counter statistics that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than LeBlanc’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than LeBlanc..
Gnar often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives more damage than LeBlanc. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually wins when trying to fight LeBlanc, with a 52.2% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a good counter for LeBlanc.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate than LeBlanc, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Gnar into LeBlancas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to LeBlanc. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing 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 LeBlanc 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 late stage team fights.
Gnar is an above average counter to LeBlanc. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against LeBlanc.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter LeBlanc during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to LeBlanc. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gnar versus LeBlanc build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs. LeBlanc than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 52.2% battling LeBlanc with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against LeBlanc 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 we have analyed for Gnar vs LeBlanc matchups, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat LeBlanc as Gnar are shown for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.