Talk:Gnar/@comment-1920550-20140906205156/@comment-7846894-20140907085810

I've only played him once but I feel Bortk Tri is his optimal build path. However that's like saying being naked is the most optimal way of staying cool. It's highly dependent on the situation. Bortk helps him kite and proc W while also helping him in big form to stay close and duel. Tri force is more expensive than Bortk but offers more stats that he needs, attack speed, move speed, damage, burst, health. Both being a great combination on him as he kites like a king and while he's in big form he becomes an unescapable monster with crazy burst.

Building both is great, however you waste so much gold that if you're not disgustingly fed you're left squishy as now you need gold for tank stats.

Tri is considerably more expensive and doesn't offer much other than health while building up to it and can leave you starved while giving no hard advantage in lane. Bortk offers life steal and a slow in its components. While offering more attack speed to proc W. I wouldn't go so far as to call anyone a troll building as such as it works. But it doesn't work all the time. Situations change and you should adapt.