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On-Hit Gnar Mid (WIP)

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Runes: Runes

Domination

Hail of Blades

Taste of Blood

Eyeball Collection

Ravenous Hunter

Precision

Legend: Alacrity

Coup de Grace

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

1 2 3

Against Most Matchups

Barrier

Flash

Items

Starting

Core Build

AP options

Example Hybrid Build

AD options

Example AD Build

Ability Order Into Melee matchups

1 2

Gnar Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

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Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Yasuo

Extreme

Ban Yasuo every game, will windwall your entire kit, will dance circles around you, and will laugh on your corpse. Only hope is that the yasuo is bad.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Champion Build Guide

Introduction

Who am I, and why am I writing this?
I am RandomNPC777, she/her, and I have been playing league for about 3 years. During this time, I've played a wide variety of champions in every role other than jungle, with adc being my best role. is my second most played champion, with over 100k mastery points, and he's quickly become one of my favorite characters. I've been expirementing with him midlane, and I've decided that it's really fun to play, as well as being shockingly effective. I've noticed that there aren't that many guides for him midlane, and none of them talk about his recent AP builds. As such, I decided that I, with my decent knowledge of the champion, and a rudimentary understanding of how to make a guide, should step up and try to fill that void.

Why Gnar Mid?
In the current meta toplane, all of Gnar's biggest counters are incredibly powerful. Champions like , , , and have all been having a great season so far, and Gnar has been quietly shunted out of the toplane meta. As such, I believe that Mid taking On-Hit items has a better matchup spread, where aiside from high mobility assassins and skirmishers he doesn't face too many real threats. Not only that, but very few midlaners will know how to counter a gnar, especially one with an unorthodox strategy like this. Also, last but most importantly, on-hit is just fun. It's feels nice to play, the mobility from feels great, and the smaller lane makes it easier to get back under tower with

Pros/Cons

PROS

+ Mixed Damage
+ High Mobility
+ Shreds Tanks
+ Powerful Mini Gnar
+ Unexpected Pick

This build is focused on adding power behind Mini Gnar, as well as being a mix of Physical and Magic damage, doing both in equal measure lategame. Having high attack speed as well as means you'll be able to proc insanely quickly, allowing you to shred most units, including tanks, with the %max health magic damage. The build's biggest strength is that it's unexpected, and many midlaners won't know how to counterplay against .

CONS

- Weak Mega Gnar
- Squishy
- Destroyed By Mobility
- Short Auto Range

The biggest issue with the build is that because you focus so heavily on Mini Gnar's , Mega Gnar is much weaker than he would be otherwise. You still can take some fights as Mega Gnar, and the added cc is very useful, but you won't be as strong as bruiser , as well as being much squisher. also has an innate weakness to mobility because of his low range and high cooldown , which he often has to save as an escape tool.

Ability Breakdown

PASSIVE ABILITY

Rage Gene

✦'s passive, , makes Mini Gnar generate rage every time he deals or recieves damage. When he hits 100 rage, he becomes Mega Gnar, gaining all new abilities, but keeping the same cooldowns. The entirety of 's gameplay is based around managing rage, and playing accordingly.
✦ Mini Gnar gets attack speed, attack range, and a slight movespeed increase. Because of this, Mini Gnar is an incredibly effective on-hit attacker, and this build focuses on Mini Gnar's damage. In general Mini Gnar will be capable of doing more damage, but is less tanky than Mega Gnar and worse early
✦ Mega Gnar gets extra attack damage, armor, magic resist, and health, making him a more effective bruiser. However, because we are building on-hit , Mega Gnar is less effective than he would be otherwise. In general, Mega Gnar will be doing less damage, but will be tankier and have more cc, making him better in teamfights, as well as being stronger early than Mini Gnar

Boomerang Throw/Boulder Toss

✦ Mini Gnar's q is which throws a boomerang in a target direction, dealing physical damage, scaling with ad, and slowing. Than, the boomerang returns when it hits an enemy or reaches the end of it's arch. You can only hit each enemy once per cast with boomerang. If catches boomerang, his q's cooldown is reduced by 40%. This still happens even if become Mega Gnar while the boomerang is in the air. The boomerang will aim directly at you if you are standing still, but if you are moving it will aim in the direction you're moving. This can be a little wonky at times, but usally it works fine. Mini Gnar mostly uses this ability for poke and to give a stack of his w.
✦ Mega Gnar's q is , which throws out an AOE boulder that deals physical damage, scales with ad, and slows enemies. It stops on the first enemy hit, where can pick it up to lower his Q cooldown by 70%, even if he has transformed back to Mini Gnar. This ability is decent when used from range, but a terrifying attack when used at melee because it almost instantly resets. Even though you'll be doing less damage with it than if you went bruiser, because of Mega Gnar's high base AD as well as some AD from items, it will still be capable of doing a fair bit of damage.

Hyper/Wallop

✦ Mini Gnar's w is , This build's bread and butter ability. Every third auto/ability hit does %max hp magic damage, which is his highest damage source other than autos in lategame. It also gives him some movespeed, scaling with his ranks in , which helps him compensate for his rather short attack range. It also, for some unkown reason, has a 100% AP scaling at all ranks, which allows gnar to buy ap items in lategame without falling off on damage
✦ Mega Gnar's q is , which does some Physical damage and stuns in an AOE. It does a bit of damage with your AD items, but isn't nearly as useful for on-hit gnar as it is for tank gnar, and you'll mostly just be using it to stun people.

Hop/Crunch

✦ Mini Gnar's e is , which allows to jump a certain distance in a target direction, bouncing if he lands on a unit and dealing damage scaling off his max hp if they're an enemy. The bounce allows to travel long distance, allowing him to cross almost from the enemy's tower to his in laning phase. This ability also provides gnar with a large attack speed steroid, which is incredibly useful for this proccing and other on-hit effects. However, has a very long cooldown, meaning if you use it you'll be left without an escape tool for 12 seconds at max rank. If you cast this ability while transforming into Mega Gnar, you'll be able to bounce once, and then land with
✦ Mega Gnar's w is , which allows gnar to leap like with , but dealing AOE physical damage scaling with 's max hp, as well as slowing enemies hit. It's a decent engage tool and allows Mega Gnar to get into melee range and stick to enemies, unfortunately it will be doing very little damage because of a lack of HP items, and often you'll want it up as an escape tool, even as Mega Gnar

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On-Hit Gnar Mid (WIP)

Introduction

Pros/Cons

Ability Breakdown

On-Hit Gnar Mid (WIP)

On-Hit Gnar Mid (WIP)

Recommended Items

Runes: Runes

Spells:

Barrier

Flash

Flash

Ignite

Flash

Teleport

Items

Ability Order Into Melee matchups

Rage Gene (PASSIVE)

Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss (Q)

Hyper / Wallop (W)

Hop / Crunch (E)

GNAR! (R)

Rage Gene (PASSIVE)

Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss (Q)

Hyper / Wallop (W)

Hop / Crunch (E)

GNAR! (R)

Threats & Synergies

Yasuo

Irelia

Akali

Katarina

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On-Hit Gnar Mid (WIP)

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