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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several vital Gnar vs. Rumble counter statistics that can help you explain the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Rumble..
Gnar usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Rumble. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when trying to fight Rumble, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter for Rumble.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Gnar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Rumbleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter for Rumble. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Rumble.
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Rumble. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Gnar versus Rumble build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Rumble than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 48.7% battling Rumble with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Rumble 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Gnar vs Rumble fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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