Should You Main Gnar? Tier F
Gnar is tier F for maining. Only 1 of its mains are Challenger or Grandmaster across the three major regions, against 294,208 games played worldwide.
Reviewed for League of Legends patch 16.15.
Verdict. Almost nobody reaches the top on Gnar. 1 high elo main against 294,208 games played.
The numbers
Score 0.34 high elo mains per 100,000 games played, ban-adjusted · 1 Challenger · 0 Grandmaster · 120 tracked mains in KR, EUW and NA · 294,208 games played worldwide · 3.19% pick rate · 0.89% ban rate
What this means
From the video: Vambient's breakdown, lightly cleaned from speech
I don't know what's going on with Gnar. I think he's fairly okay, but the thing is there's zero grandmaster players and there's only one challenger Narm. So, 3% pick rate is very low representation in the highest of MMRs.
I think the higher you go, the easier it is to play against this champion because essentially you just go in when he doesn't have Narbar and then you back off when he does. And it's very obvious when he has Gnar bar kind of charged up. So, I guess similar situation to Fiddlesticks maybe.
He has a lot of counterplay behind him. So yeah, it's pretty difficult to play with Gnar, but he is decently okay if you know played very correctly, but I wouldn't choose him as your first championing mating in League of Legends. So, right now at least.
How this was measured
Two numbers, one division. First, how many players are currently in Challenger or Grandmaster maining this champion in Korea, Europe West and North America, from onetricks.gg. Second, how many ranked games the entire playerbase plays of this champion worldwide across every rank, from op.gg. The result is high elo mains per 100,000 games played, then reduced by the champion's ban rate, because a champion you cannot pick is a champion you cannot main.
This is not a win rate list and it is not a patch strength list. It measures availability-adjusted high-elo main density: how much Challenger and Grandmaster main representation a champion has relative to how often it is played. It is not the probability that maining this champion will get you to high elo. The score counts Challenger and Grandmaster mains only, drawn from a tracked pool that starts at Master; it does not include the Chinese server, and it counts accounts rather than people, so one dedicated player with several high elo accounts shows up more than once. Patch 16.15. The full plain English explanation, including everything this list cannot tell you, is on the main list page.
Popularity is not the signal. What matters here is how densely high elo mains appear relative to how often the champion is played.