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.
The stat comparisons provided here feature some significant Gnar against Yuumi matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Yuumi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Yuumi. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Yuumi. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Gnar usually loses when facing off against Yuumi, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Gnar makes a poor counter for Yuumi.
While Gnar does have a lower win rate compared to Yuumi, when on opposite teams, Gnar also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Gnar into Yuumias his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Yuumi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Yuumi matchups, Yuumi is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gnar is a somewhat poor counter to Yuumi. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Yuumi.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to counter Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar typically accumulates much more CS relative to Yuumi. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Yuumi build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Yuumi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.5% battling Yuumi with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Yuumi 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Gnar vs Yuumi counters, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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