Annie with Gnar
How to Synergize Annie and Gnar
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Annie Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Annie with Gnar
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Annie in LoL
The Annie 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, Annie sees a large worsening 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 Annie perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Annie plays on the same team as Gnar, she gets a little increase in her full damage output. This could indicate that Gnar provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Annie during teamfights.
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Is Annie better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal synergy for Annie that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Gnar is a terrible companion for Annie. By being on the same team as Annie, he lowers their win rate by -4.3% to 45.0%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Annie and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means you must be careful when lining up Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Annie and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your side very much attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Annie in order to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Annie and Gnar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie boasted an average win rate of 45.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Annie players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Manaflow Band runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.0% winrate overall.
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