Gnar·Top Build
Win rate | 49.5% |
Pick rate | 5.4% |
Ban rate | 1.6% |
Matches | 103 635- |
Gnar Build
Most Popular
Win Rate 54.4% based on 25 647 matches
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Most Popular
54.4%Highest WR
55.0%Alternative
53.3%Off-Meta
53.6%Top Players ALL
Szygenda Pro
100%Wunder Pro
100%Nasasyn OTP
66.7%Matchup Specific
K'Sante
57.9%Maokai
50.6%runes
spells
D
F
items
Starter Items
Time Target@ 15 sec
Early Items
@ 3 min
Core Items
@ 21 min
Full Build
ability order
Q
W
E
Skills
situational items
Gnar Matchups Overview
Gnar General information
Gnar tips and tricks
When against melee champions, use your range advantage to harass the enemy. Whenever they have 2 stacks on them, make sure you auto-attack or use your Q to proc your W.
Try to delay a team fight for as long as possible while you stack your Rage Bar. When it’s up, force a fight before you go back to Mini Gnar.
Before using your E aggressively, take a look at the mini-map to make sure the enemy Jungler is not nearby and ready to engage once you’ve overextended.
Gnar combos
Every combo you need to master the champion!
The Best Gnar Builds, Runes and Items for Top in Emerald +
Most Popular
If you want to use the most popular Gnar Top build, you should take Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Grasp of the Undying as your keystone, followed by Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Legend: Alacrity and Triumph in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Trinity Force as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Black Cleaver. For your last 3 items, you should build Sterak's Gage, Randuin's Omen and finish with Thornmail. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 54.4% winrate over 25 647 matches played.
Alternative
If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Conqueror as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity and Last Stand in the primary tree, and Bone Plating with Overgrowth in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Adaptive Force, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Trinity Force as your first item, then Plated Steelcaps as a second item and Black Cleaver as a third item. You want to finish the build with Sterak's Gage, Randuin's Omen and Thornmail. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 53.3% win rate across 1 841 matches played.
Off-Meta
If you want to try an Off-Meta Gnar Top build in the current patch, try Flash and Teleport as your Summoner Spells, Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating and Overgrowth as your primary rune tree, and Legend: Alacrity with Triumph as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Black Cleaver as your first item, then finish Plated Steelcaps as your second item, and Trinity Force as third item. The last 3 options are Sterak's Gage, Randuin's Omen and Thornmail. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 53.6% win rate over 1 150 matches played.
Situational Gnar Runes and Items
Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Gnar build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.
Furthermore, if you want a more detailed breakdown, you should also check out Gnar runes page.
Probuilds
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In-depth Build Stats
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Gnar Counters - Best and Worst Matchups for Top in Emerald +
Best Matchups
In Patch 14.23 the best possible matchups for Gnar Top are:
- vs. Smolder - 58.4% win rate over 782 games.
- vs. Yone - 53.2% win rate over 2 695 games.
- vs. K'Sante - 53.1% win rate over 6 139 games.
- vs. Trundle - 53.0% win rate over 672 games.
- vs. Volibear - 52.9% win rate over 2 644 games.
Consider picking Gnar into these matches to increase your chance to win a game. These are the most popular Top matchups that currently are in favor of Gnar.
Worst Matchups
We highly recommend avoiding picking Gnar in the current patch into the following Top matchups:
- vs. Malphite - 44.5% win rate over 3 739 games.
- vs. Zac - 44.7% win rate over 557 games.
- vs. Ryze - 45.3% win rate over 810 games.
- vs. Heimerdinger - 45.8% win rate over 483 games.
- vs. Tahm Kench - 46.0% win rate over 1 781 games.
These champions are considered as Gnar counters in the current patch, and playing such a matchup will decrease your chances of winning a game.
Additional Notes
If you want to find out more about best and worst matchups, as well as specific matchup statistics, we highly encourage you to check our Gnar counters page. Keep in mind that while the champion may counter or be countered, it also comes down to your individual skill, the skill of your opponent, your team, and enemy team compositions.