Gnar with Bard
How to Synergize Gnar and Bard
based on 1,136 Gnar with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Bard Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Bard
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Gnar Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Bard, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Bard on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gnar that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Bard is a very typical ally for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 48.4%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Gnar and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players should be careful when arranging Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Gnar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Bard together, you may not be providing your team a lot of cover. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Gnar and Bard synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Bard with Gnar are given for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.