Gnar ARAM Mayhem Build

The Missing Link. A below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #154 of 173 champions.

CPatch 26.21FighterTankNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: C
Win rate: 46.2%
Pick rate: 3.6%
Rank: #154 of 173
Games: 835,571
Patch: 26.21

How to play Gnar in ARAM Mayhem

Gnar is a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier C, #154 of 173 champions, with a 46.2% win rate over 835,571 games. Riot rates it 8/10 for difficulty, so give it a few games before you judge it.

Gnar's damage is mixed (65% physical, 29% magic), which makes it awkward for the enemy team to itemize against. It soaks 52,846 damage per game and mitigates another 56,843, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't.

The Tank build, tank items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Heartsteel, Overlord's Bloodmail and Warmog's Armor, with a 48.8% win rate over 204,374 games. On this build 51% of players skip boots and spend the slot on another item.

The cards that do best on Gnar are Heavy Hitter, Steel Your Heart and Goliath. Cards built around health and resistances fill most of the top of its list, followed by attack speed and on-hit. Skip It's Killing Time and Glass Cannon when you can: they do worst on Gnar. A pair to look for: Hand of Baron with Ultra Hydra.

Take Flash and Mark (91% of players). Max Q (Boomerang Throw / Boulder Toss) first, then W, then E.

Gnar ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Gnar game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Tank build · top ranked

48.8% win rate · 30% of Gnar games · 204,374 games

Start

Giant's Belt
Ruby Crystal

Core items, in buying order

Heartsteel
Overlord's Bloodmail
Warmog's Armor

Boots on the Tank build for Gnar, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
Gluttonous Greaves	4%
No boots	51%
Plated Steelcaps	9%

Situational, after the core

Sterak's Gage7% buy it
Force of Nature3% buy it
Black Cleaver7% buy it
Titanic Hydra9% buy it
Unending Despair9% buy it
Randuin's Omen13% buy it

Other build paths

Other Gnar build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Games	Win rate
On-hitHeartsteel, Dusk and Dawn, Nashor's Tooth	0.3%	41.5%
BruiserTrinity Force, Black Cleaver, Death's Dance	22.9%	46.5%
APDusk and Dawn, Nashor's Tooth, Rabadon's Deathcap	8.4%	41.5%

Games: the share of all Gnar games that went this way.

Most bought items

Heartsteel52% of games
Mercury's Treads30% of games
Trinity Force29% of games
Warmog's Armor27% of games
Death's Dance23% of games
Blade of The Ruined King23% of games
Wit's End19% of games
Black Cleaver18% of games
Thornmail18% of games
Randuin's Omen17% of games

Best augments for Gnar

Every card with enough Gnar games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Gnar's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

1GoliathTier S
2Omni SoulTier S
3Mad ScientistTier S

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

1Heavy HitterTier S
2FruitifyTier S
3Ocean SoulTier S

S- and A-tier cards for Gnar

13 S tier and 25 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Gnar in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Heavy Hitter	Silver	Tier S	Your Attacks deal additional (3.5% Max Health) physical damage.
Steel Your Heart	Gold	Tier S	QUEST: Possess Heartsteel with 300 stacks. REWARD: Multiply Heartsteel stacks by 3.
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier S	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Tank Engine	Gold	Tier S	On takedown, gain a stack that grants 5% increased size and 5% max Health. Lose 65% of stacks on death.
Fruitify	Silver	Tier S	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Ocean Soul	Silver	Tier S	Gain the Ocean Soul, granting high Health and Mana Regen after damaging enemies.
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier S	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Dual Wield	Prismatic	Tier S	When you Attack, fire a bolt that deals 40% damage and applies your On-Hit Effects On-Hit effects at 40% effectiveness. Gain 10% total…
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier S	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier A	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
En Passant	Prismatic	Tier A	Periodically identify Vitals on enemy champions. Hitting Vitals with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional 6% + 1.5% per stack max Health…
Ultra Hydra	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain a Tiamat when completing a Hydra Item. QUEST: Possess Titanic Hydra, Ravenous Hydra and Profane Hydra. REWARD: Get Ultra Hydra.
Growth Spurt	Gold	Tier A	Gain Growth Spurt as a Summoner Spell. Growth Spurt suddenly increases your size, Knocking Up nearby enemies for 1 second and granting…
Upgrade Immolate	Silver	Tier A	Hollow Radiance and Sunfire Aegis grant 12 Gold per target affected with Immolate. Gain 250 Gold.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Blade Waltz	Prismatic	Tier A	Makes you untargetable while you dash at and deal (30–150 (by level) +10% Bonus Attack Damage+6% Ability Power) damage to enemies 8 times…
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier A	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Ok Boomerang	Gold	Tier A	Autocast a boomerang at a nearby enemy every 7 seconds, dealing (40–200 (by level) +30% Bonus Attack Damage+20% Ability Power) adaptive…
Celestial Body	Gold	Tier A	Gain 1500 Health, but you deal 10% less damage.
Still Here	Gold	Tier A	Gain 2% Attack Speed and 0.35% Lifesteal for each 1% of missing Health.
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier A	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Final Form	Prismatic	Tier A	After casting your Ultimate, gain a 50% max Health Shield, 20% Omnivamp and 30% bonus Movement Speed for 10 seconds. (20 seconds Cooldown).
Dawnbringer's Resolve	Gold	Tier A	When dropping below 50% Health, heal for 30% max Health over 3 seconds. Resets on death or every 45 seconds.
Blunt Force	Silver	Tier A	–
Goredrink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 15% Omnivamp.
Urf's Champion	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Score 18 takedowns. REWARD: Gain The Golden Spatula.
escAPADe	Silver	Tier A	Convert Ability Power to Bonus Attack Damage and gain (15%) Attack Damage. Converts at a rate of 0.6 Attack Damage per point of Ability…
Mountain Soul	Silver	Tier A	You gain the Mountain Soul, gaining Shield after being out of combat for a short time.
Erosion	Silver	Tier A	Damaging enemies shreds 1.5% Armor and Magic Resist for 4s, up to 30% at 20 stacks.
Hellbent	Prismatic	Tier A	Striking enemy champions with Attacks or Abilities grants you a stack of Revivemaxxing for 6 seconds (max: 10). At max stacks become…
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Squishy Slappy Grab	Prismatic	Tier A	Occasionally send out Squishy Slappy Hands that latch on to all nearby enemy champions for 4 seconds. While you're latched onto enemies…
Biggest Snowball Ever	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 100 Ability Haste on Snowball. Your snowball is BIG and will pass through minions. It Slows enemies for 20% for 2 seconds, Knocks Up…

Average on Gnar
52 cards, best first

Below average on Gnar
28 cards, best first

Weakest on Gnar
7 cards, best first

Best first augment for Gnar

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Gnar's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Heavy Hitter, Armored Impact and Steel Your Heart come out on top.

The best augments for Gnar in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Heavy HitterTier S	Heavy HitterTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	GoliathTier S
2	Armored ImpactTier S	GoliathTier S	Heavy HitterTier S	Heavy HitterTier S
3	Steel Your HeartTier S	Steel Your HeartTier S	FruitifyTier S	Mad ScientistTier S
4	GoliathTier S	Dual WieldTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Tank EngineTier S
5	Tank EngineTier S	Armored ImpactTier S	GoliathTier S	Forged By The MasterTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Gnar, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Mark91% of players · 46.4% win rate
Flash + Ghost8% of players · 45.1% win rate
Flash + Barrier0% of players · 45.0% win rate

Skill order

QBoomerang Throw / Boulder Toss
WHyper / Wallop
EHop / Crunch

Max Q first. 65% of players use this order (48.0% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Gnar in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 10.0 / 11.2 / 24.6
KDA: 3.42
Damage to champions: 39,036
Damage taken: 52,846
Self-mitigated: 56,843
Healing on allies: 2
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 34 s
Kill participation: 63%
Game length: 16:42

Damage type

Physical 65%Magic 29%True 6%

Questions and answers

What is the best Gnar build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Tank build first for Gnar: Heartsteel, Overlord's Bloodmail and Warmog's Armor. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Gnar in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Gnar, best first: Heavy Hitter, Steel Your Heart, Goliath, Omni Soul and Mad Scientist. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Gnar good in ARAM Mayhem?

Gnar is tier C on patch 26.21, #154 of 173 champions, with a 46.2% win rate over 835,571 games. That makes it a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Gnar in ARAM Mayhem?

For Gnar's first pick on patch 26.21: Heavy Hitter, Armored Impact, Steel Your Heart, Goliath and Tank Engine, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Gnar counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.