Lee Sin vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Lee Sin
based on 1,216 Lee Sin vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Gnar
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Lee Sin in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Lee Sin against Gnar counter stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Gnar..
Lee Sin often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Gnar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Gnar
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Gnar, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a poor counter for Gnar.
While Lee Sin does have a lower winrate than Gnar, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Lee Sin into Gnar.
Moreover, Lee Sin also has some amount of utility and CC, 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lee Sin vs Gnar matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lee Sin is a somewhat poor counter for Gnar. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lee Sin against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin in order to counter Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin usually racks up a lot less CS compared to Gnar. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need 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 require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lee Sin versus Gnar build consist of Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 48.3% battling Gnar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Gnar as Lee Sin, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lee Sin vs Gnar fights, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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