Gnar with Ekko
How to Synergize Gnar and Ekko
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Gnar Ekko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Ekko
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Ekko
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 Ekko Will Play
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
Gnar Ekko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ekko as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Ekko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ekko, 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 Ekko. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ekko helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Ekko, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Ekko helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Ekko 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 Ekko.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Ekko on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Ekko does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Ekko?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gnar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, Ekko is a good companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 1.9% to 49.9%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Gnar and Ekko that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Ekko has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when lining up Ekko comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Ekko together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much tankyness. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Ekko ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Ekko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Gnar and Ekko synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Ekko than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Ekko with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Gnar players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
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