How to win lane as Gnar against Sejuani · 53.41% win rate over 264 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Gnar | Her Arctic Assault is one-point and on a long cooldown early while she has no ranged answer, so Mini's auto-plus-Boomerang wins the first trade clean before any Frost stacks land. |
| Level 2 | Gnar | Your level-2 Hyper third-hit proc plus Boomerang chunks her for free, and she has no Permafrost detonation set up yet to punish the commit. |
| Level 3 | Gnar | You keep kiting with Q slow and Hyper move speed; once her Arctic Assault dash is spent she can't reach you to stack Frost for the Permafrost stun. |
| Levels 4-5 | Sejuani | At 6 she gets Glacial Prison — if you're stuck in Mini with Rage gone she Q-dashes in, R-pins you, and detonates Permafrost for the kill, so this is her window. |
| Level 6 | Even / skill | If Rage is up instead, Mega Wallop stun into Boulder Toss out-trades her by a health bar, and a wall-pin GNAR! near terrain is a near-guaranteed kill while her R is down. |
| First item | Gnar | Your first-item poke spike keeps snowballing the lead — her single dash and lack of sustained range can't trade it back in lane. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | She scales into an unkillable teamfight tank with Frost Armor and a long-range Glacial Prison, so your form-dependent burst plateaus into her late-game frontline. |
Sejuani's only gap-closer is Arctic Assault (Q), a single dash with a long early cooldown, and she has no ranged poke — so Mini Gnar just bullies her. Auto, throw Boomerang for the slow, and catch it on the return for the cooldown refund. Lead with the Hyper third-hit at level 2 for a chunky free trade, then walk away on the move-speed burst before she can stack Frost. The thing to respect is her Permafrost: don't let her chain enough ability hits to detonate the stun, and don't sit still long enough for a baited Arctic Assault to connect.
The full Gnar vs Sejuani 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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