Gnar vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Gnar
based on 1,135 Gnar vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Gnar vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Gnar against Rakan counter stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Gnar normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Rakan
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Who is Better, Gnar or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Rakan, with a 47.9% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter to Rakan.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate compared to Rakan, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Rakanas 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 Rakan. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter for Rakan. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically accumulates much more CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Rakan build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Rakan than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Rakan with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Rakan 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 combinations players chose for Gnar vs Rakan counters, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rakan as Gnar are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.