Gnar vs Taric
How to Beat Taric as Gnar
based on 419 Gnar vs Taric matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Taric Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taric as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Taric
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 Taric
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
Gnar vs Taric Counter Stats
How to Counter Taric with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here show some critical Gnar versus Taric matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Taric’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Taric..
Gnar normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Taric
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Who is Better, Gnar or Taric?
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 Taric, with a 45.8% win rate. Therefore, Gnar makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Gnar does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Gnar into Taricas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much 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 terribly counter for Taric. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gnar against Taric.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to counter Taric during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically picks up much more CS compared to Taric. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar versus Taric build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Taric than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 45.8% when countering Taric with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Taric 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. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Gnar vs Taric counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.8% winrate overall.
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