Gnar with Amumu
How to Synergize Gnar and Amumu
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Gnar Amumu Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Amumu
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Amumu
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 Amumu Will Play
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.
Gnar Amumu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Amumu as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Amumu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Amumu, 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 Amumu. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Amumu helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Amumu, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This could signal that Amumu provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Amumu 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 alongside Amumu.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Amumu on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Amumu does a poor job of covering Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Amumu?
There is no perfect ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Amumu is a very bad teammate for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he decreases their win rate by -3.5% to 44.5%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Gnar and Amumu that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Amumu has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when lining up Amumu comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gnar and Amumu together, you will not be granting your other teammates much AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Amumu ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to work well with Amumu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar and Amumu synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Amumu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 44.5% helping carry Amumu with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.5% win rate overall.
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