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.
The stats provided here show some valuable Gnar vs. Rell matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rell’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rell. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Gnar usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Rell. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when taking on Rell, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes an ok counter to Rell.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Rell, when they face off with one another, Gnar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Rellas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rell. 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 Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Rell. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Rell.
To truly master Gnar to counter Rell during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar most often gets much more CS relative to Rell. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Rell build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Rell than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 49.6% battling Rell with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Rell as Gnar, you should take 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 we have analyed for Gnar vs Rell fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rell as Gnar are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.