How to win lane as Gnar against Aatrox · 50% win rate over 1,112 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gnar | My Mini autos plus one Boomerang Throw win the level-1 trade clean while his Q sweetspots cost full mana and his on-hit heal is tiny. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | His level-2 power-up is real, but so is my Hyper third-hit proc — the boomerang poke war plus Rage timing keeps it genuinely even. |
| Level 3 | Aatrox | His full Darkin Blade Q-chain plus Infernal Chains and passive heal out-damage my poke in any trade I stand in for at 3. |
| Levels 4-5 | Even / skill | My Rage RNG decides it — Mega Wallop or wall-GNAR! flips his all-in, but stranded in Mini I have no answer once his chains snare me. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | He gets R combat stats and bonus healing at 6 while I get no new spell, so the window is purely whose cooldowns are up. |
| First item | Aatrox | His Eclipse into Sundered Sky bruiser spike plus R drain-heal out-sustains my form-dependent burst in a sustained 1v1. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | My wall-GNAR! is a bigger fight-swinging tool than his single Infernal Chains snare, so teamfights even out what his sustain wins in a sidelane duel. |
Level 1-2 is mine — Mini autos plus a single Boomerang Throw chip him while his Q sweetspots still cost full mana and his on-hit heal is negligible, so I win the first trade and shove. The instant he hits 3 and has the full Darkin Blade combo plus Infernal Chains, I stop standing in trades: his sweetspot Q knockups out-damage me and the passive heal eats my poke. I boomerang-poke between his slow Q windups, and the moment chains land I burn Hyper's move speed or Hop out of the zone before it snares me into his combo.
The full Gnar vs Aatrox 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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