Gnar vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Gnar
based on 1,348 Gnar vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Gnar vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Gnar in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Gnar vs. Tristana counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Gnar normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Tristana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gnar and Tristana
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Who is Better, Gnar or Tristana?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually fairs equally well when taking on Tristana, with a 50.2% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes an ok counter to Tristana.
While Gnar does have a higher win rate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Tristanaas 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 Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Tristana matchups, Gnar 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 decent counter to Tristana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Gnar against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gnar to counter Tristana 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 mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically gets a similar amount of CS compared to Tristana. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Gnar versus Tristana build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Tristana than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing against Tristana with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Tristana 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 players chose for Gnar vs Tristana LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% win rate overall.
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