Gnar
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · KR- Pick
- 6.4%picked in 1,187 of 18,496 games
- Ban
- 7.3%1,272 bans over 17,544 games, against 2.5% in soloQ
Amateur: 18,736 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, KR. SoloQ Master+: 316,098 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.DraftLength
- How to play itLethal Tempo, then Trinity Force, Black Cleaver, and Sterak's Gage: the most played build in soloQ.



- In a compCrowd control (CC) first: more CC than 82% of top laners.CCDamagePokeSplit-push
- With / againstBetter than expected against Thresh in amateur play: +15.0 pts over 59 games, range above zero.+15.0 pt59 games
- In draftTaken at any point of the series.
What changes in tournaments?
3 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Top.
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 3.2%
- SoloQ
- 2.1%
- DraftBanned more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 7.4%
- SoloQ
- 2.5%
- LengthLonger games in amateur play
- Amateur
- 29.5 min
- SoloQ
- 26.2 min
How to play it?
Lethal Tempo, then Trinity Force, Black Cleaver, and Sterak's Gage: the most played build in soloQ.
Trinity Force
Black Cleaver
Sterak's Gage
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Crowd control (CC) first: more CC than 82% of top laners.
- Crowd control (CC)top18%1.2 · top laners: 0.8
- Team damagetop20%24% · top laners: 20%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other top laners
What marks it
- CC
- Damage
- Poke
- Split-push
Like other top laners
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Gold at 20 min
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Lets allies carry kills
What it is not
Nothing below top laners.
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 67 in lane, 60 in mid game and 35 in late game, out of 100 top laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 75% of top laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among top laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 67 of 100 among top laners632 · median 599
- Damage in mid game · rank 60 of 100 among top laners902 · median 868
- Damage in late game · rank 35 of 100 among top laners1,016 · median 1,079
- Gold at 15 min · rank 76 of 100 among top laners+286 · median +119
- Gold at 20 min · rank 75 of 100 among top laners+402 · median +100
- Absorbs damage · rank 46 of 100 among top laners888 · median 970
- Plays teamfights · rank 68 of 100 among top laners55% · median 53%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 33 of 100 among top laners26% · median 28%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 63 of 100 among top lanersrank 63 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 82 of 100 among top laners1.2 · median 0.8
- Team damage · rank 80 of 100 among top laners24% · median 20%
With whom, against whom?
Better than expected against Thresh in amateur play: +15.0 pts over 59 games, range above zero.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
With
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
- K'Sante132 games50.0%gap -1.0 ptsSoloQ: 51.6% · 1,282 g
- Malphite89 games47.2%gap -0.4 ptsSoloQ: 44.5% · 611 g
- Renekton66 games47.0%gap -1.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.0% · 520 g
- Ornn56 games41.1%gap -6.1 ptsSoloQ: 45.7% · 129 g
- Sion52 games50.0%gap +0.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.0% · 200 g
- Aatrox48 games54.2%gap +5.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 392 g
- Ambessa41 games34.1%gap -15.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.3% · 461 g
- Sylas41 games48.8%gap -3.0 ptsSoloQ: 50.3% · 463 g
- Camille34 games32.4%gap -14.5 ptsSoloQ: 45.9% · 279 g
- Jayce32 games50.0%gap -0.6 ptsSoloQ: 48.7% · 729 g
- Nasus31 games51.6%gap +4.1 ptsSoloQ: 51.8% · 228 g
- Olaf29 games—SoloQ: 50.5% · 321 g
- Yorick28 games—SoloQ: 58.0% · 169 g
- Dr. Mundo27 games—SoloQ: 57.6% · 158 g
- Zaahen27 games—SoloQ: 50.7% · 213 g
- Yone25 games—SoloQ: 50.3% · 593 g
- Irelia24 games—SoloQ: 48.6% · 473 g
- Jax16 games—SoloQ: 49.6% · 411 g
- Fiora14 games—SoloQ: 46.5% · 402 g
- Gangplank11 games—SoloQ: 46.7% · 409 g
- Malphite9 games—SoloQ: 44.5% · 611 g
- Volibear5 games—SoloQ: 44.0% · 302 g
- Lee Sin126 games50.0%gap -0.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 1,907 g
- Wukong105 games39.0%gap -5.6 ptsSoloQ: 45.3% · 327 g
- Jarvan IV92 games48.9%gap -1.9 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 558 g
- Vi79 games46.8%gap -2.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 470 g
- Sylas48 games45.8%gap -2.5 ptsSoloQ: 46.4% · 541 g
- Nocturne41 games43.9%gap -7.5 ptsSoloQ: 53.8% · 184 g
- Xin Zhao40 games52.5%gap +3.7 ptsSoloQ: 51.1% · 276 g
- Qiyana35 games54.3%gap +4.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 795 g
- Viego35 games51.4%gap +2.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 539 g
- Lillia34 games61.8%gap +15.6 ptsSoloQ: 51.5% · 299 g
- Naafiri34 games58.8%gap +11.2 ptsSoloQ: 52.9% · 365 g
- Cho'Gath33 games48.5%gap +1.0 ptsSoloQ: 53.3% · 338 g
- Graves30 games43.3%gap -5.9 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 610 g
- Sejuani26 games—SoloQ: 52.5% · 80 g
- Nidalee23 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 716 g
- Elise18 games—SoloQ: 44.7% · 333 g
- Hecarim17 games—SoloQ: 51.5% · 559 g
- Kha'Zix12 games—SoloQ: 55.6% · 453 g
- Talon12 games—SoloQ: 45.9% · 540 g
- Naafiri11 games—SoloQ: 52.9% · 365 g
- Naafiri11 games—SoloQ: 52.9% · 365 g
- Ahri88 games48.9%gap +2.6 ptsSoloQ: 46.5% · 507 g
- Syndra82 games46.3%gap -2.3 ptsSoloQ: 50.0% · 688 g
- Viktor67 games47.8%gap -1.2 ptsSoloQ: 51.4% · 866 g
- Sylas51 games39.2%gap -11.8 ptsSoloQ: 50.5% · 691 g
- Orianna50 games62.0%gap +9.1 ptsSoloQ: 48.8% · 400 g
- LeBlanc45 games55.6%gap +6.4 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 386 g
- Lissandra45 games53.3%gap +2.4 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 384 g
- Ryze43 games41.9%gap -9.4 ptsSoloQ: 54.5% · 279 g
- Akali42 games47.6%gap -2.4 ptsSoloQ: 51.9% · 507 g
- Aurora42 games50.0%gap 0.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.2% · 295 g
- Twisted Fate39 games56.4%gap +9.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.6% · 761 g
- Yone37 games48.6%gap +3.0 ptsSoloQ: 53.3% · 629 g
- Locke36 games38.9%gap -12.6 ptsSoloQ: 49.3% · 603 g
- Hwei31 games41.9%gap -5.6 ptsSoloQ: 43.8% · 288 g
- Galio28 games—SoloQ: 47.6% · 525 g
- Zed23 games—SoloQ: 46.1% · 445 g
- Galio19 games—SoloQ: 47.6% · 525 g
- Yasuo11 games—SoloQ: 50.6% · 401 g
- Katarina7 games—SoloQ: 45.0% · 409 g
- Jhin119 games56.3%gap +3.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 1,695 g
- Yunara106 games37.7%gap -9.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.1% · 1,284 g
- Caitlyn105 games49.5%gap +2.7 ptsSoloQ: 50.8% · 805 g
- Kai'Sa103 games51.5%gap +2.9 ptsSoloQ: 48.6% · 1,693 g
- Ezreal82 games57.3%gap +3.7 ptsSoloQ: 54.0% · 1,062 g
- Jinx75 games50.7%gap +5.8 ptsSoloQ: 49.6% · 936 g
- Lucian66 games45.5%gap -4.0 ptsSoloQ: 48.9% · 687 g
- Xayah63 games46.0%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 49.1% · 637 g
- Sivir48 games37.5%gap -11.5 ptsSoloQ: 45.8% · 227 g
- Tristana47 games38.3%gap -12.2 ptsSoloQ: 48.1% · 809 g
- Ashe46 games54.3%gap +7.8 ptsSoloQ: 52.6% · 274 g
- Aphelios44 games52.3%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 48.2% · 1,087 g
- Miss Fortune40 games42.5%gap -6.2 ptsSoloQ: 47.5% · 297 g
- Zeri36 games44.4%gap -1.1 ptsSoloQ: 53.2% · 600 g
- Varus28 games—SoloQ: 53.0% · 183 g
- Corki22 games—SoloQ: 51.3% · 236 g
- Kalista20 games—SoloQ: 50.1% · 469 g
- Lulu116 games47.4%gap -3.8 ptsSoloQ: 49.5% · 1,307 g
- Nautilus115 games54.8%gap +4.5 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 1,095 g
- Leona80 games47.5%gap -0.7 ptsSoloQ: 45.5% · 571 g
- Braum70 games55.7%gap +9.0 ptsSoloQ: 49.8% · 436 g
- Milio65 games55.4%gap +4.8 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 306 g
- Blitzcrank59 games40.7%gap -7.5 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 784 g
- Thresh59 games62.7%gap +15.0 ptsSoloQ: 47.4% · 1,248 g
- Rakan57 games45.6%gap -3.7 ptsSoloQ: 48.3% · 460 g
- Seraphine54 games42.6%gap -4.9 ptsSoloQ: 47.9% · 303 g
- Karma46 games50.0%gap -1.3 ptsSoloQ: 46.9% · 608 g
- Rell45 games37.8%gap -7.1 ptsSoloQ: 48.0% · 540 g
- Yuumi39 games41.0%gap -6.5 ptsSoloQ: 57.0% · 428 g
- Alistar38 games44.7%gap -3.2 ptsSoloQ: 44.4% · 628 g
- Morgana32 games46.9%gap -0.3 ptsSoloQ: 49.7% · 151 g
- Neeko31 games35.5%gap -11.7 ptsSoloQ: 47.7% · 199 g
- Bard30 games66.7%gap +18.9 ptsSoloQ: 49.4% · 650 g
- Pyke25 games—SoloQ: 48.4% · 432 g
Ban it or pick it?
Taken at any point of the series.
Pick rate as Top
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+2.1%13,499 picks of 632,193ban 2.5% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments3.2%755 picks of 23,550ban 7.4% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro7.0%154 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
13.7% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Top- 7.3%G1310 games of 4,244
- 6.3%G2267 games of 4,245
- 7.2%G3+130 games of 1,815

