Gnar vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Gnar
based on 1,326 Gnar vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Gnar vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several significant Gnar versus Malzahar counter statistics that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Malzahar..
Gnar usually has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Malzahar. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Gnar or Malzahar?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when taking on Malzahar, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter to Malzahar.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Malzahar, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Malzaharas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Gnar is a trash counter to Malzahar. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Malzahar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Gnar versus Malzahar build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Malzahar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 46.1% when playing against Malzahar with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Malzahar as Gnar, you should use 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 chose for Gnar vs Malzahar counterpicks, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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