Gnar with Gragas
How to Synergize Gnar and Gragas
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Gnar Gragas Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Gnar Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Gragas, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Gragas does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Gragas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Gragas on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gragas does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Gragas
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no top synergy for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Gragas is a not very good teammate for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -2.1% to 45.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Gnar and Gragas that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Gragas comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gnar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. Together, these two will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other allies a great deal of AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gragas ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to synergize with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Gnar and Gragas synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 45.9% helping carry Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.9% winrate overall.
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