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Gnar Build 26.21

Gnar is two champions sharing a rage bar, and mastering the swap is the whole game. Mini Gnar skirmishes at range with his boomerang, then Mega Gnar becomes a raging bruiser whose ult can wall an entire team into a stun. Timing that transform, and having it ready when the fight breaks, is what separates a good Gnar from a fed one. On the weaker side at 49.2% and on the way up this patch.

#89 of 141 top this patch · 4.7k games

Win rate49.2%+1.6Games4.7kPick rate3.2%Ban rate1.1%Last 8 patches+1.1 since 26.14Damage profilei

AP 16%AD 82%True 2%DifficultyiHighPunishes misplays

The 10-second answer standard · 49.2% WR

Spells

Flash + Teleport Start

Plated Steelcaps SkillsQ›W›E Runes

Shards

ModernARAM Counter

173 champions

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When Is Gnar Strongest?

This is a late-game profile, strongest with full items online, and games at this rank average around 28 minutes. Gnar's win condition is a well-timed transform, so use the power window to poke as the small form, build rage before a fight, and land a wall-pinning engage that starts a teamfight already won.

Game timeline · Gnar drag or hover to scrub · space plays · ←/→ step

your power minute by minute · gold = item spikes · small = components · dashed = objectives

Camps1:30Drake / Grubs5:00Herald14:00Baron20:00Avg end27:46

Ambush zone8:06–9:36 Power spike 14:33

9:52

14:33

21:01

0:00 10:00 20:00 30:00 40:00

At 12:00

Power 57/100 · Even

Core 1/3 items

Gold ~4.9k

Phase Lvl-6 window

Next spike Trinity Force · 14:33

Gnar Item Build

Gnar is a shape-shifting fighter who swings between a nimble ranged poker and a raging bruiser, so the build blends attack damage with health and resistances to make both forms threaten damage while surviving the dive. The items are meant to let the small form kite and chip until the mega form can land a fight-ending engage.

Standard loadout · Gnar The consensus path — reliable spikes, no dead time.

Starting items 500g

Doran's Blade×1

Health Potion×1 Core path · click an item for its recipe ›› Boots

Plated Steelcaps71% · 50.1%

Mercury's Treads29% · 48.7%

Situational items pick an opponent in the bar above — the right swaps light up

vs AP threatsTheir damage is mostly magic — stack magic resist before their second item.J

Jak'Sho, The Protean17258.7%K

Kaenic Rookern7054.3%F

Force of Nature9553.7%

vs AD threatsPhysical threats spike with lethality — armor answers buy the mid game back.J

Jak'Sho, The Protean17258.7%R

Randuin's Omen85057.3%T

Thornmail26645.5%

vs stacked resistsWhen resists stack, penetration beats raw stats — swap a damage slot.T

Terminus5749.1%

vision controlFights are decided a minute earlier by the team that sees first.O

Oracle Lens67351.1%F

Farsight Alteration1.1k50.4%S

Stealth Ward2.9k48.4%

Best Gnar Runes

Fleet Footwork is the pick, and it suits his poke-and-kite pattern, the sustain and movement keep Mini Gnar healthy while he chips from range. He spends much of the game skirmishing before he commits with Mega, so the rune covers that phase, and the rest leans into the durability his engage form needs.

The pre-game page Fleet Footwork · Precision + Resolve · keystone + 5 runes + 3 shards

Precision Primary

Fleet FootworkAttacking and moving builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack heals you and grants increased MS.

Triumph78% · 49.1%

Legend: Alacrity98% · 49.3%

Last Stand66% · 49.8%

Keystone plus three minors from Precision, two from Resolve, then three shards — no runebook, no masteries.

Resolve Secondary

Bone Plating85% · 48.9%

Overgrowth84% · 49.6%

Stat shards Offense

Attack Speed+10% Attack Speed

Flex

Adaptive Force+9 Adaptive Force

Defense

Health Scaling+10–180 Health (by level)

Shards give +10%Attack Speed+9Adaptive Force+10–180 Health (by level)

Build toward Trinity Force into Black Cleaver to arm the Mega side of his kit. You can lose lane and still take over once the items come online. Once Black Cleaver comes online at about the 21-minute mark, his transform windows turn into real kill threats rather than just poke, so play toward that spike and try to enter fights in Mega form with rage to spare.

Gnar Skill Order

Hop grabs one point at level 3 and waits until 14 for a second, so the leap you rely on to reposition stays at its weakest rank for eleven levels while Boomerang Throw eats ranks 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9.

Skill order · Gnar R at 6 / 11 / 16 — always

PriorityR

R›Q

Q›W

W›E

EMax Q first; W at level 2.

Lv 123456789101112131415161718

Q14579max 9

W28101213max 13

E314151718max 18

R61116max 16

Gnar Abilities

Hyper quietly powers Mini Gnar between boomerangs, stacking bonus damage and Move Speed onto his attacks, while the same slot becomes Wallop, a ground-slam stun, once he transforms. Hop springs him off a unit head for extra distance, the reposition that keeps the small form safe.

Abilities · Gnarpatch 26.22 base numbers · click an ability · all ranks shown

Rage GenePassiveP

Boomerang Throw / Boulder TossMax 1stQ

Hyper / WallopMax 2ndW

Hop / CrunchMax lastE

GNAR!UltRRank-up levels here match the skill order below.

Boomerang Throw / Boulder TossPhysical damageMax 1stStatLV 1rank 1LV 4rank 2LV 5rank 3LV 7rank 4LV 9MAXBoomerang Damage+40 per rank+125% ADlv 15lv 445lv 585lv 7125lv 9165Cooldown-1.5 per ranklv 116slv 414.5slv 513slv 711.5slv 910s

Gnar Base Stats

Base stats · GnarPatch 26.22

Base statslevel 1 · +per levelAD60+3.2AS0.625+6%MS335Range175HP540+79HP54.5+1.25Armor32+3.7MR30+1.3Fury100

Gnar Matchups

Gnar wants to poke safely as the small form and only commit when his rage bar fills, so all-in threats that catch him mid-transformation and mobile skirmishers that dodge his boomerang give him trouble. Immobile lanes he can whittle from range and clumped enemies he can pin to a wall are what his kit punishes.

Lane matchups · Gnar click any opponent to retune the console

Hardest lanes · click to tune

Best hunting

How to lane vs tanks 01Bully the tank early with Mini boomerang poke; they scale later.02Keep the wave pushing to deny farm before their item spikes.03In fights, use ultimate to peel their engage off your carries. Win rate by game lengthGnar overall · all matchupsUnder 20 min48.3%20–28 min49.3%28–35 min49.1%Over 35 min50.2%

Watch for Malphite, Irelia, and Cho'Gath, who lock down Mini Gnar or catch him mid-transform when he is most vulnerable, so manage the rage bar carefully around them. Against Gwen, Gangplank, and K'Sante he pokes freely and picks his engage, so whittle them down in Mini form and swap to Mega when you are ready to wall them and go.

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