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.
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
The Gnar Elise synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Elise, 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 Elise. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Elise helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Elise, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Elise helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Elise 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 Elise.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Elise on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Elise does a decent job of covering Gnar in team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Elise is a below average companion for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, she drops their win rate by -3.0% to 45.0%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Gnar and Elise that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Elise has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players should be careful when arranging Elise allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Elise together, you will not be giving your team enough crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Elise ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to work well with Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Gnar and Elise synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Elise than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 45.0% helping carry Elise with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
If you need to get Gnar with Elise cooperations tips and builds for a a specific player tier, please choose one from the selection menu displayed above. At first, the stats and guides shown are computed using all matches with data with both champions.