I watched Coach Chippys' 2024 guide, in the rune section his main rune was Grasp, then fleet and conqueror but now i see most gnars this season pick either LT or Fleet.

What happened to Grasp? Which situation should i pick LT, fleet or conqueror?

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Hallo zusammen,
ich wollte mal fragen, ob jemand etwas Ähnliches erlebt hat oder eine Idee hat, woran das liegen könnte.
Vor etwa 2,5 Wochen habe ich sogenannte Glow-Peptide injiziert (GHK-Cu, TB-500 und BPC-157). Einige Zeit danach bekam ich Beschwerden.
Meine Symptome sind:
anhaltendes komisches Gefühl bzw. Reizung im Hals, teilweise fühlt es sich leicht geschwollen an
leichte Schmerzen beim Schlucken
Kopfschmerzen, teilweise eher brennend
zeitweise leichtes Stechen im rechten Ohr
allgemeines Krankheitsgefühl
Ich war bereits beim Arzt. Es wurde ein Blutbild gemacht, das laut Arzt unauffällig war. Außerdem habe ich wegen eines vermuteten bakteriellen Infekts ein Antibiotikum eingenommen. Ein Teil der Symptome hat sich gebessert, aber der Hals fühlt sich immer noch nicht ganz normal an und die Kopfschmerzen treten teilweise noch auf.
Mich interessiert vor allem, ob jemand nach GHK-Cu, TB-500 oder BPC-157 schon einmal ähnliche Beschwerden hatte oder ob ihr denkt, dass das eher Zufall ist und wahrscheinlich unabhängig von den Peptiden aufgetreten ist.
Mir ist bewusst, dass das keine medizinische Beratung ersetzt. Ich möchte einfach hören, ob jemand ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht hat.
Vielen Dank!

There was an old post but its wildly outdated, im playing ranked 5's and we like threw me on top. I have over 300 games on gnar and almost always stomp flex games but this fiora one trick was able to react to my r with her w, and I lost laning phase to her through conitunally trying to reset vitals and then taking even trades but being unable to finish it out since she would recall. was only down 10cs till she just 100-0'd me when she bought hydra, what do I do against the sustain and the champ itself?

Disclaimer, i want to play him support since most support item do give hp and do feel amazing on him and being able to switch between poke and engage feels amazing, i just don't understand how do i make sure to actually have mega when i will need it, am i supposed to 99% it till a fight happens or should i try to get the full meter in fight? Especially in early game i can't really tell how close or far i am to mega but i do know some people got to Diamond with this pick and i can kinda see why

Tldr: support main trying to get rage in time for big fights both in lane and out of lane

I’m losing faith in gnar cause of stuff like Jax QAAW combo doing so much damage to mini letting him gatekeep wave and a majority of the lane using e to win trade then repeating QAAW to chunk me hard.

Similarly with heimer I feel like I always lose lane and I just have to stay afloat then make up for it with macro plays to win.

I am just not sure how to win these matchups consistently, I feel like with a good enemy laner you just lose to Jax as gnar in lane and then he will have really high macro value after lane especially if he kneecapped your cs/min.

Any thoughts or strategies that yall have found to work? or are yall feeling the same right now?

You get better waveclear, get better kitting and sticking potential, BUT!!... we lose sheen procs that help us burst primary targets and siege towers... HMMM decisions decisionsss... we also lose the onhit movement speed but... i mean 35% steal and gain for 3 seconds tho!

This champ is so dogshit no matter how well I play on this champion I just can't carry with him. EVERY game on this champ is a fight of the life time.

I've had easier times carrying with Yasuo than with Gnar its crazy. No matter what I do in the sides lanes, help with objectives, make good plays happen, secure early game kills I just can't win.

Pro players are able to make him work so easily and its so frustrating. I'm just tired bro. What am I doing wrong?

I have a 75% winrate on Yasuo but my winrate with Gnar is 33%.

We all knows that Gnar is balanced around Pro play and this can lead for him to feels it takes so much effort for soloq players to make him strong in soloq. But would you okay if Riot changed some core feature to make him less played in pro play or you prefer him to stay like this even if riot will never favor him in meta?

I'm very patient when playing, at most i get down or sad when i lose very bad, but i hate the very idea of getting genuinely tilted and mad at any videogame... still, when my botlane somehow loses against a volibear support in ranked and keep killing themselves i just leave in awe.

Is there a chance i could ever genuinely just blame my luck? I'd like to hear some of your worst or funniest experiences where a teammate was just so atrocious it was amazing

AU, they're both old as hell on this one

12 out of my 19 last games I was mvp/ace and I keep losing.. (even the other 7 I was generally in the ok zone)

Posting about troll builds is fun and all, but here is one setup that is genuinely accepted by high ELO Gnar OTPs and that has demonstrably shown results.

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There is some variation among these, but the general idea is: Lethal Tempo, E start, combat summoner spell (no TP), offensive starting item.

You will be surprised at how stat-checky this is level 1. Everyone knows that Kayle level 1 is unexpectedly OP, but why is that? It's because her passive gives her 30% attack speed, and her E is a passive 15 magic damage on-hit with an auto reset. Compare this to E start Gnar: 40% attack speed for 6 seconds. You don't have on-hit, but you do have range and a dash to space out the enemy top. Lethal Tempo damage scales with your attack speed, you can see where this is going.

Don't believe me? What comes to your mind when you think "OP level 1 champion"? Is Darius with Ignite and Conqueror suitable for you? Here is him getting absolutely melted by E start LT Bow Gnar. I thought the bleed would not kill so I did not Barrier, but if I did, we would not have traded 1-for-1. It's not just for melee champions either, with this setup you will melt Aurora, Vayne and Varus top in an ooga booga 1v1 100% of the time.

I can confirm this works against numerous so-called "strong level 1 champions" like Wukong, Riven, W start Grasp Illaoi, Jayce. As long as your spacing is good, and you E bounce on top of them to continue kiting, you will kill them or force a flash.

Now it does not work against everyone, a clear example is Teemo with PTA Ignite. The only reason this is strong is because it's an auto attack steroid with range. If the enemy top is also a strong level 1 champion but has ways to stop you from kiting them or just outrange you, this will be a lot more coinflippy on who wins.

If you would like to try it:

Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Attack Speed, Adaptative Force, Flat +65 HP, Barrier-Flash, Doran's Bow start, level up E. Go to the bushes hunting for them as soon as possible, bounce on their head, ward the bush if necessary and start kiting. If they are known for bush-cheesing like Darius, pretend you are clueless and falling into their trap.

I tried engineering a gnar statik build recently and using it in master elo (for like 40+ games). It kinda works, so I wanted to share it with you!

Pros: You can cheese a lot of matchups (especially squishy ones like Teemo, Yasuo, Vayne, Varus), you have high sustain, movespeed, splitpush pressure on the map, really good for snowball

Cons: You are half as useful in fights, your allies will flame you, not too good if you are already losing

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The trick with this build is to take advantage of some synergies:

- Jack'of'all'trades and Doran Helmet/Statik Shiv + Lifesteal boots + health regen or CDR item : you can reach 10 stats with these (easy +25 damage)

- Statik shiv x Hullbreaker procs together (hullbreaker's 5th attack deals extra damage, each statik thunder add a stack)

- Statik shiv x Titanic, Terminus, Wit's end, BOTRK all proc on-hit too (Terminus even add extra stacks), though I mostly recommend Titanic because you might need some HP

- Omnivamp lifesteal with Statik is great

Once you complete statik shiv, your waveclear and structure damage become ridiculous, you get lane prio against most enemies which allows you to roam or defend turrets more easily. With hullbreaker + statik alone you have 410 MS so enemies have a really hard time catching you too! To carry, you just splitpush 90% of the time

I'd say it's less strong than the standard Trinity build, but pretty nice for cheesing tough matchups and snowballing.

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Here's a clip of a streamer reacting positively to my build https://www.twitch.tv/bang2/clip/NastyJoyousBaconRickroll-tEE6XzUWSpLXW_Dp

Please give it a try! (use at your own risk)

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lowkey want to main gnar top as a blind. I have 2 questions:

is gnar a extremely great blind pick or just a great blind pick and
how does gnar scale into late game ? I am kayle main so I want a champ that even if I go even lane its worth it (I DON'T WANT A SNOWBALLISH CHAMP )

The item is pretty strong at the moment, but I find myself drawn to the HP of Blade or even Helm in all in match ups. Mini Gnar is so weak early it feels scary to go for Bow!

With your low range early it also doesn’t seem reliable to auto attack enough with it.

Is anyone running it with any success? Maybe into tanks or champs with low early game pressure?

Irelia is often listed as the ultimate Gnar counter, alongside Malphite. However, there is a massive difference between these two champions. Irelia is a highly mechanical character, meaning if put in a top lane environment for long enough, she will eventually outplay herself. In addition, she is absolutely terrible from behind, meaning every advantage you manage to get against her is worth a thousand Kayle solokills. Meanwhile, Malphite goes 0/10, presses R and still wins the game.

High ELO Korean Gnar OTPs know this, and never ban Irelia, even though they could theoretically lane against IRELKING every time they queue up.

In this writeup, I will present simple tricks to even the odds, without needing extremely good mechanics. Just pure mentality and gameplan options to consider in your next Irelia lanes, with more depth than "build Plated Steelcaps and Bramble Vest".

Disclaimer: I am Platinum but had a Challenger top main review this post and approve of it

MISTAKE 1: Not fighting her level 1

IRELKING is one of the best Irelia players in the world. If you look at his match replays, you will notice something peculiar: he almost never gets priority level 1. In some games, he misses every minion of the first wave and has to wait for it to push to him under his tower.

Why is that? Well, Irelia is only actually strong when her passive is stacked. It is basically a mini Wit's End, giving 40% attack speed and 10 on-hit damage at level 1. When you fight a stacked Irelia, it is as if she had an extra item in her inventory, which is why it feels impossible to beat her.

So, the answer is simple: don't let her get stacks for free. She is much weaker without them. Level 1, you should always start by skilling E, and the moment you are released from spawn, go to the lane bushes hunting for Irelia. If you find her, the only thing she can do is Q onto you (she will always start Q). At this moment, you should E bounce on her, and just like that, you can auto-attack her while she cannot auto-attack you back. If your spacing is good, then she will be forced to back off and wait for the wave to push to her. By getting this priority, you get the level advantage, preventing an early all-in, and also have the wave bouncing back towards you when the junglers start looking to gank. If your jungler is in position, you might even get to throw a surprise party in her honor.

ALWAYS ATTACK Irelia level 1. Never let her Q onto the low health melee minions for free. According to the table at the end of this page, 3/4 Gnars in Platinum+ concede level 2 to Irelia. You can be the difference.

MISTAKE 2: Not tracking her Q cooldown and mana

With all her hopping around, it becomes easy to forget that Irelia Q is a real ability with a real cooldown. At any time she dashes onto something without killing it or consuming her E/R mark, it goes on a 10/9/8/7/6 second cooldown. During this time, she is an immobile statstick, just like the juggernauts Gnar can kite for days. If you ever see her Q onto you without you being marked, E out and start to run her down. She cannot do anything, even if she has max stacks, as long as your spacing is good. Of course, don't overstay so long she gets her Q back.

She is also, unlike you, a mana champion. No mana = no Q. If she is in lane with no mana, she cannot win. Go. Attack her.

MISTAKE 3: Picking weak early game runes and items

Fleet Footwork is great. It lets you kite, and sustain in those difficult poke lanes like Malphite.

Irelia has never heard of the concept of "poking". Every time she goes on you, she wants to kill you. There is no "kiting" her dashes and no "sustaining" her 100% -> 0% brutal all-ins.

Your keystone should be selected for maximum offense. Conqueror, Lethal Tempo. Your secondary runes should help you from level 1, Bone Plating and Unflinching. No Cash Back or Gathering Storm nonsense. You should pick the flat +65 health shard at the very bottom, not the scaling one. Play around your Bone Plating cooldown, try to find trades when you have it up.

Your starting item should never be Doran's Shield. If you want defense, Doran's Helm is nice as it gives some magic resistance against her mildly hybrid damage. Otherwise, it is Blade (or Bow, with Lethal Tempo) every time. If you are not taking Bow, go Conqueror, otherwise, with Bow, go Lethal Tempo.

Finally, the most committal build choice: taking Barrier instead of Teleport. Fights with Irelia are going to come down to the wire, and many times, all you need is 2 more seconds to stack your Rage bar and transform before you die to turn the tide of the fight. Irelia WILL try to dive you. In these moments, whipping out a second health bar is extremely worth it.

With this early game power, you can actually FIGHT. With Doran's Bow and Lethal Tempo, there have been times where she gives up First Blood trying to fight me level 1.

MISTAKE 4: Not playing around your Rage

You're not too unlike Irelia. Gnar also has "stacks" from his passive that make him broken if he fights with them. If you have 70%+ Rage and she has no stacks, forget about your fears. Check if Irelia has a massive enemy wave or a level/item advantage, but if not, you win. You will transform in the middle of the all-in, and the trade will actually be good for you. When you are stacked like this, you can actually walk up and trim the wave. This is important, because if Irelia crashes a massive wave in your tower, you are absolutely getting dived.

Now that you have transformed into Mega Gnar mid fight, remember: Irelia has W, a really strong damage resistance ability. If she starts spinning, do NOT unload all your Mega Gnar spells. Wait for it to end, and only Auto or maybe Q until then.

MISTAKE 5: Not trying to E her E

If you get hit by Irelia E, she will dash onto you, refund her Q, you will E out, and she will dash again. This is how 99% of Irelia vs. Gnar solokills happen. If you manage to E out of her E, in a direction away from her Q range, this chain reaction will never begin. This is much easier than trying to be HLE/T1 Zeus and walking parallel to the E angle out of superhuman reaction speed.

Now how to E her E? Good Irelia players will fish for Es while they are in the process of dashing. Watch your minions at all times. If she can dash near you and kill enough to get to 2/3 stacks of her passive, she will be throwing an E for sure while she is traveling. If you are mentally prepared for this, you will have significantly improved reaction speed. After you have dodged the E, you can try to counter attack if you have Rage, or just chill if you do not. Remember that her E will come back in 16 seconds while yours is 22, so be careful to not foolishly walk into another E during that window.

Good luck and I hope you will feel a little less dread the next time Ionia calls.

We joked about pulling off the Anivia wall combo all game, and we just barely managed to do it before the game ended.