Garen with Gnar
How to Synergize Garen and Gnar
based on 209 Garen with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Garen Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Garen vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Garen and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Garen with Gnar
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Garen in LoL
The Garen 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, Garen 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 Garen perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Garen is paired with Gnar, he sees a noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Gnar does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Garen is played with Gnar on the same side, 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.
Moreover, when Garen plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Garen in team fights.
Synergies between Garen and Gnar
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Is Garen better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top companion for Garen that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a terrible companion for Garen. By locking into the same team as Garen, he lowers their win rate by -6.1% to 42.6%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Garen and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Garen. That means Garen players should be very careful when lining up Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by aligning Garen and Gnar together, you will not be providing your other allies much AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Garen in order to pair well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Garen and Gnar synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Garen had an average win rate of 42.6% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gnar with Garen are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.