Gnar

the Missing Link

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

45%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

515

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
84%45%431
Exhaust + Flash
7.2%—37
Flash + Ignite
6.4%—33

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
31%48%160
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
25%45%129
Doran's Helm, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
13%51%67

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Trinity Force → Black Cleaver → Sterak's Gage
12%58%62
Trinity Force → Black Cleaver → Wit's End
5.6%—29
Trinity Force → Sterak's Gage → Wit's End
4.7%—24

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
64%47%328
Mercury's Treads
24%43%122
Boots of Swiftness
9.7%40%50

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Randuin's Omen
4.9%—

Fifth item

Not enough games yet

Sixth item

Not enough games yet

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss → Hyper / Wallop → Hop / Crunch

92%46%474

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W		W	W					W		W		W	W
E														E	E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 11,768 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.17 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.