How to win lane as Cassiopeia against Gnar · 51.24% win rate over 121 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gnar | Mini-Gnar's boomerang (Q) and hop-reset autos out-poke your level-1 — one rank of Noxious Blast and no Twin Fang means you can't trade back. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | With two of Q/E you can prime-and-Twin-Fang, but his ranged boomerang poke and hop mobility keep it a genuine coin-flip skill trade. |
| Level 3 | Cassiopeia | Your Q-to-E poison combo plus passive move speed lets you stick through his hops and out-DPS him in an extended trade. |
| Levels 4-5 | Cassiopeia | Miasma grounds his hop so a dash-reliant mini-Gnar can't escape, and ranked Twin Fang chains near-continuous nukes off your poison. |
| Level 6 | Cassiopeia | Petrifying Gaze counters his Mega dive — a charging Gnar faces you, so R stuns the engage before GNAR! lands and your poison closes the kill. |
| First item | Even / skill | It stays a coin-flip even with R online — his own GNAR! AoE stun and Rage timer make the all-in window a two-way skill check. |
| Two+ items | Gnar | Late Gnar out-scales you — Mega kites your short range and one GNAR! stun bursts a bootless, resistance-less, glass-built Cassiopeia. |
Level 1 is his — mini-Gnar's boomerang (Q) and hop-reset autos chip you for free while you have one rank of Noxious Blast and no Twin Fang to punish back. Don't walk into a boomerang to last-hit; farm off the edge of your Q zone and eat the chip. Once you hit 2-3 and have Q-into-E online the math flips: prime him with Noxious Blast poison, Twin-Fang the refund chain, and your passive move-speed buff lets you stick on him through his hops.
The full Cassiopeia vs Gnar report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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