Alistar with Gnar
How to Synergize Alistar and Gnar
based on 644 Alistar with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Gnar
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Alistar perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar is an ally to Gnar, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Gnar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Gnar on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Alistar in team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Gnar
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Alistar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Gnar is a very bad ally for Alistar. By being on the same team as Alistar, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 46.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Alistar and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players need to be careful when arranging Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Gnar together, you will not be granting your team very much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Alistar and Gnar synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Alistar had an average winrate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Alistar and Gnar pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.3% winrate overall.
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