Talk:Gnar/@comment-25495009-20141003154352/@comment-25495009-20141004025038

Oh, no. I do agree. Mini-Gnar is horrendously squishy, and his base stats are pretty terrible. But I don't think that really CRIPPLES him like a lot of people make it out to be. Played against a Riven, Panth and a Yasuo today... I traded pretty well with all of 'em, save for Riven--Gnar is difficult to play when compared to those three, and the majority of popular picks, but he's not impossible.

Between Hop and Boomerang, some clever manuevering can really go a long, long way. Out-traded Yasuo pretty hard pre-9, until he got his Shiv... then there were some real difficulties, when he could dive and one-shot from under the turret.

Riven was also problematic. But I needn't go into that, because Riven is... well, Riven.

Pantheon's only real issues are the fact that he has a stun, and can completely mitigate the first hit, and increase the amount of time it takes to proc Hyper.

I don't really need to validate the point that most people understand: Any champion can be played into an advantageous position. With about 15 minutes in a normal game, I find that Gnar can go from Gimp to Pimp with only about three items.... and that's about the time it took you to play catchup with Irelia...