Gnar vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Gnar
based on 2,431 Gnar vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Gnar vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some strategic Gnar vs. Lucian counter statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Lucian. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Lucian
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Who is Better, Gnar or Lucian?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Lucian, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a poor counter for Lucian.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Lucian, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Lucianas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lucian. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Lucian. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Lucian. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Lucian build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Lucian than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Lucian as Gnar, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Gnar vs Lucian clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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