Gnar with Garen
How to Synergize Gnar and Garen
based on 209 Gnar with Garen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Garen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Garen
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Garen
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 Garen Will Play
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
Gnar Garen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Garen as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Garen helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Garen, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Garen does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Garen on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Garen
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Garen?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Garen is a terrible ally for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -5.4% to 42.6%. This shows that there is a very bad bond between Gnar and Garen that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Garen comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Garen together, you will not be providing your other teammates much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Garen ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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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 work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Gnar and Garen synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Garen than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 42.6% helping carry Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Gnar players 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 rune sets players picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.6% winrate overall.
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