Amumu with Gnar
How to Synergize Amumu and Gnar
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Amumu Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Amumu and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Amumu with Gnar
Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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.
Amumu Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Amumu in LoL
The Amumu 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, Amumu sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Amumu perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Amumu plays on the same team as Gnar, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Gnar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Amumu is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Amumu plays with Gnar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Amumu in teamfights.
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Is Amumu better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best ally for Amumu that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a terrible teammate for Amumu. By locking into the same side as Amumu, he drops their win rate by -4.5% to 44.5%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Amumu and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Amumu. That means you should be careful when lining up Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by bringing Amumu and Gnar together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much attack damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Amumu to work well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Amumu and Gnar synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Amumu used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 44.5% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.5% winrate overall.
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