Akali with Gnar
How to Synergize Akali and Gnar
based on 2,093 Akali with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Akali Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Akali vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Akali with Gnar
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
Akali Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Akali in LoL
The Akali Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Akali perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is paired with Gnar, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Gnar supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Gnar on the same side, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top ally for Akali that will always be her best teammate. However, overall, Gnar is a below average teammate for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, he lowers their win rate by -2.5% to 46.6%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Akali and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players must be cautious when lining up Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Akali players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Akali and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your team enough crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Akali and Gnar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Akali and Gnar pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Gnar with Akali are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.