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Can someone pls point out Gnar's tradeoffs?

LuckyReden·12/8/2014, 2:40:11 AM·2 votes·739 views

He has high damage + dps, you cant build armor to counter his poke because: 1. His cooldowns are so low and he has no resource bar so he can just out poke your armor and sustain. 2. He has armor shred. 3. He'll be just as tanky when he gets into Mega Gnar form.

He has high survivability: His E makes him very mobile, the longer he is in combat the sooner he gains a CRAP TON of Health, Damage, and Armor, he gains even more movement speed from his W passive, and his Q slows.

He has brutal laning power against anyone melee or who doesn't have a short CD dash, because he lacks a resource bar, his abilities are high damage and low cooldown, his passive on W can be brutal, and he can lock down for forever with Q + W + Ult.

He scales well, he has high cc, very high mobility late game, good ratios, can tank very well. Only downside is if he gets caught out late game hes much squishier, but his MS is so high it hardly matters.

How is someone that is so well rounded allowed to exist? There are no decision-making or reasoning skills requried to use his abilities, his Q is on a super short cooldown, so is his E.

What are his trade offs? Cuz I feel like there should be more people complaining, unless I just am unaware of how he's somehow balanced.

14 Comments

eyes wide shut12/8/2014, 2:42:39 AM7 votes

he explodes if you fight him after his passive runs out. As someone who mains gnar, it's EXTREMELY easy to punish him if you've ever played him and know what you're doing. Once again, people need to learn the champion and their weaknesses before shouting "omg op op op"

Wise Squirrel12/8/2014, 3:38:03 AM3 votes

I haven't even played as Gnar, and I find him underwhelming.

You are blowing things way out of proportion.

FyshinaTux12/8/2014, 3:08:44 AM1 votes

umm... he has Armor Shred? this is news to me... O_o

7ha7guy77712/8/2014, 3:44:54 AM1 votes

i played Gnar for a bit when he was free. i completely destroyed a Gnar in lane as Darius. Darius, supposedly the easiest to kite champion in the game. i was the only one who got fed on my team that game, one person on my team went positive other than me, the enemy yasuo and jungle tryndamere were both just as fed as me and yet everyone except Gnar managed to get to level 18 in that game. Gnar was level 15 at end game. He got shut down hard.

Kowe The Ewok12/8/2014, 4:11:59 AM1 votes

1.) Easy to hit will skillshots 2.) Mini Gnar has among the WORST base stats ingame 3.) If you threaten him while he is about to catch his boomerang he has insanely long cooldowns 4.) He has no ultimate during 90% of the time 5.) Unless fed he is only a danger if evolved AND you#re mispositioned (near a wall) 6.) Ranged laners like Lissandar, Vayne or Quinn top simply destroy him since he can't trade with either of them 7.) Check point 2... 'nuff said. 8.) His gabcloser is horribly unless you go all-in just when a new creepwave arrives (Renekton anybody?)