Brand with Gnar
How to Synergize Brand and Gnar
based on 2,516 Brand with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Brand Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Brand and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Brand with Gnar
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
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.
Brand Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Brand in LoL
The Brand 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, Brand sees a very large drop 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 Brand perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Brand tries to synergize with Gnar, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Gnar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Brand is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Brand plays with Gnar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Brand during team fights.
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Is Brand better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Brand that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Gnar is a below average teammate for Brand. By being on the same side as Brand, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 49.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Brand and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Brand. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Brand players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Brand and Gnar together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Brand and Gnar synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Brand and Gnar pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Gnar with Brand are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.