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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Gnar vs. Rengar counter statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Rengar..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Rengar, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a bad counter for Rengar.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Rengar, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Rengaras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champion with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Gnar is a garbage counter to Rengar. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Rengar.
To truly master Gnar to counter Rengar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average racks up much more CS relative to Rengar. Champions who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities 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 on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Gnar versus Rengar build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Rengar than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Rengar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Rengar 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Gnar vs Rengar face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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