Gnar vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Gnar
based on 685 Gnar vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Gnar vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show some valuable Gnar versus Poppy counter stats that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Poppy..
Gnar typically has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Poppy. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Poppy
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Who is Better, Gnar or Poppy?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Poppy, with a 46.1% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a bad counter for Poppy.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate than Poppy, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Poppyas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Poppy. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter for Poppy. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually racks up more CS as Poppy. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Gnar versus Poppy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Poppy than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 46.1% battling Poppy with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Poppy as Gnar, Gnar players 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 builds players used for Gnar vs Poppy fights, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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