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.
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
The Gnar Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Anivia. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Anivia helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Anivia, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Anivia supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Anivia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Anivia.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Anivia on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Anivia does a poor job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Anivia is a very typical teammate for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 47.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Gnar and Anivia that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means you must be cautious when arranging Anivia allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Gnar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Anivia together, you will not be providing your other allies enough AD. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's ability, 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.
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to pair well with Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Gnar and Anivia synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Anivia than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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