Gnar with Alistar
How to Synergize Gnar and Alistar
based on 644 Gnar with Alistar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Alistar
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.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
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.
Gnar Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gnar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Alistar helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is paired with Alistar, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Alistar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Alistar on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Alistar does a poor job of covering Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Alistar
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, Alistar is a not very good teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gnar and Alistar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Alistar comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to soak up damage. Together, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Alistar together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Gnar and Alistar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.3% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gnar and Alistar pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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