Gnar

the Missing Link

TopPatch 16.17Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

44%

Pick rate

Ban rate

Games

314

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport
85%43%267
Exhaust + Flash
8.0%—25

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Doran's Blade, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
29%46%92
Doran's Blade, Health Potion
24%43%76
Doran's Helm, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
14%—44

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Trinity Force → Black Cleaver → Sterak's Gage
11%—34
Trinity Force → Sterak's Gage → Wit's End
5.4%—17
Trinity Force → Black Cleaver → Wit's End
5.1%—16

Boots

Plated Steelcaps
64%46%201
Mercury's Treads
25%40%77
Boots of Swiftness
9.2%—29

Later items

Not enough games run this long yet to say what goes in the last slots.

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

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

93%45%292

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
E			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 7,138 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.