Gnar vs Ryze
How to Beat Ryze as Gnar
based on 376 Gnar vs Ryze matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Ryze Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Ryze Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ryze as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Ryze
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 Ryze
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
Gnar vs Ryze Counter Stats
How to Counter Ryze with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Gnar vs. Ryze counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ryze’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze..
Gnar often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ryze. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Ryze
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Who is Better, Gnar or Ryze?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually wins when facing off against Ryze, with a 51.1% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a good counter to Ryze.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when facing one another, Gnar also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Gnar into Ryzeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Ryze matchups, Gnar is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Gnar is a decent counter to Ryze. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Ryze.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Ryze during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Ryze. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Gnar versus Ryze build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Ryze than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 51.1% battling Ryze with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Ryze as Gnar, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Gnar vs Ryze LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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