Gnar with Annie
How to Synergize Gnar and Annie
based on 664 Gnar with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Annie Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Annie Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Annie
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
Gnar Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 Annie. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Annie, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Annie helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Annie on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Annie.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Annie on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Annie does a poor job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Annie?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Annie is a relatively poor companion for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -3.0% to 45.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Gnar and Annie that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Annie has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Annie comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gnar and Annie together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Annie teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should 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 in order to pair well with Annie during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Gnar and Annie synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Annie than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 45.0% helping carry Annie with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.0% win rate overall.
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