Katarina vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Katarina
based on 1,362 Katarina vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Gnar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Katarina vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some important Katarina against Gnar matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gnar’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gnar. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Gnar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Gnar
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Who is Better, Katarina or Gnar?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when facing off against Gnar, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes an ok counter to Gnar.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Gnar, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Gnaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gnar. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Gnar matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter to Gnar. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Gnar during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often racks up a similar amount of CS as Gnar. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Katarina versus Gnar build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Gnar than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Gnar as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Katarina vs Gnar face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
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