Gnar with Aphelios
How to Synergize Gnar and Aphelios
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Gnar Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Gnar Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Aphelios helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Aphelios, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Aphelios does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Aphelios 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 synergisticly with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Aphelios is a not very good ally for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Gnar and Aphelios that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means you need to be very careful when finding Aphelios allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Gnar and Aphelios together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to pair well with Aphelios during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Gnar and Aphelios synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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 builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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