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Help! How do I beat Gnar as Shen!?

RockyandAgent··2 votes·19,368 views

Hey my name is Craig and I am from Oceania region my account is called "loveyousoyeon". Just wanna say to all my fellow Soyeon and T-ARA lovers.... She's mine!!!!!!! Kidding but I love her voice and she's yum as.

Ok now my issue, Yesterday I versed a gnar as shen and even though I had plenty of armour his still giggled at me and stomped me. I thought having armour runes and a thorn mail and tabi would reduce a lot of the damage from gnar; it did for mini gnar. But when he turned into mega gnar he just took a dump on me and didn't care for my damage. I then went to get a rylais to hurt him more and slow him down a bit but he was too fast and after giving him a few kills I couldn't be with him alone because I would die an escapable death.

My strategy was stay under turret and poke him when I can and get a thorn mail and then all in him with help but this tactic was pretty useless he out sustained me by hitting minions and tower dived me as mega gnar. What should I do as shen vs gnar?? Was I being too passive early pre 6, should I treat him like tryndamere and all in pre 6? What should my mindset be throughout the laning phase of the game be? Thanks North American community! :D

8 Comments

Agent20903 votes

Pray the Gnar doesn't know what he's doing. If he does know what he's doing, go to a surgeon and get your two bottom ribs taken out so you'll be able to stick your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye.

While I don't think Gnar is OP. Riot really hasn't been too kind to top lane melee champs recently. Every time one gets even a little powerful, they seem to just...disappear...

poopoo peepee1 votes

Well... your problem was definetely rushing thornmail. I would get maybe randuins or warmogs into thornmail, since armor is uselesss wtihout health. Actually, health will hurt since his w....

Maybe spirit visage into thornmail, increased healing and some mr, and the armor will def help.

BlackRaven1 votes

early game the only thing u can do is just shake ur head at riot and hope to god u finally get a chance to be viable again in the next 25 years. maybe melees can be of use top vs range. maybe..

eyes wide shut1 votes

Gnar's main dmg output comes from the magic dmg on his W on the third proc, kind of like vayne.

S H A Y C 01 votes

I agree with the other guys, thornmail rush isnt going to help you with gnar..his passive does rediculous magic damage and he can proc it with his boomerang. defensive items will need health on top of armor or mr so spirit visage and randuins or sunfire are you best bet for rushing, especially since gnar will likely rush a botrk or triforce...even wits end is pretty rediculous on gnar. Aside from that shen really is a bad idea vs gnar...current meta hes not strong already and gnar is a pretty difficult match up for him so your odds are pretty low from the get go. Shens low damage output makes your harass pretty useless because when he transforms he gets a bunch of health. Best advice really is dont play shen vs gnar im afraid.

Earl Eulrich1 votes

rush trinity, wait till he´s small and hit him with all your might. Other than that...accept that Shen still needs some buffs.

Kingsgrave1 votes

Sit on his face

RockyandAgent1 votes

Ahh I see where I went wrong I didn't think he dealt much magic damage. Do you think a spectre cowl rush then rylai then warden mail would do better. Or should I just rest my head on my keyboard on cry? I ask cause I often pick shen first 3 in ranked and don't want be countered picked by a gnar but if it does happen I want to know what I can do. Thanks for the input guys seems this matchup is a hard 1 for my favourite champ

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