Jayce vs Gnar in Top lane is a lane that swings with levels on patch 26.16. The one thing to respect: hold your melee E for his E — react to it to cancel his play, don't lead with yours. Below is the exact page the OTP runs — runes, skill max order, summoner spells, item build and the four tips that decide the lane, plus a quick quiz before you lock in.

⇄ ChangeYOU · TOPJAYCEthe Defender of Tomorrow

⇄ ChangeENEMY · TOPGNARthe Missing Link

VS

Swings with levelsPre-6 MediumPost-6 HardTake Teleport

How to play it

✓ DO

React to his E

Good melee E use is huge — react to his E (Hop/Crunch) rather than using yours first, and you cancel his play.

Win short trades

You have stronger level 1 stats and Stormraider's Surge — contest prio, abuse the level 2 spike, and win the shortest trades where your autos hit harder.

Poke him mini

Poke Gnar while he's mini — he has less defensive stats and more resistances in mega; it's a better use of your mana.

✕ DON'T

⛔

Never take long ranged trades — his infinite passive procs win those; keep every exchange short.

Runes

SORCERYmatchup page

INSPIRATIONoverride for this matchup

SHARDS

Matchup-specific rune page — override from the OTP sheet for this lane.

Spells

FLASH

TELEPORT

Items

Start

Core

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Skill order

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Q			Q	Q		Q	Q
		W							W	W		W	W
			E											E	E		E	E
						R					R					R

MAXQ→W→E

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