Gnar with Heimerdinger
How to Synergize Gnar and Heimerdinger
based on 483 Gnar with Heimerdinger pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Heimerdinger Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Heimerdinger
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger Will Play
Spreading out Hextech Micro-Rockets leads to more reliable damage and more efficiency against multiple targets, but focusing it creates the biggest impact.
The success of Electron Storm Grenade is very important to Heimerdinger's survival. The slow and stun both are capable of keeping enemies in place long enough to punish them, but it is also the first line of defense against a surprise attack.
Turret placement can be a deciding factor in a battle. Against most enemies turrets are best when they can support each other, but if the enemy has a lot of area of effect damage your turrets can be destroyed quickly. Placing turrets in brush can lead to a surprise attack in your favor.
Gnar Heimerdinger Synergy Stats
How to Play with Heimerdinger as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Heimerdinger synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Heimerdinger, 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 Heimerdinger. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Heimerdinger helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Heimerdinger, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Heimerdinger helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Heimerdinger on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Heimerdinger.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Heimerdinger on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Heimerdinger does a poor job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Heimerdinger
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Heimerdinger?
There is no perfect synergy for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, Heimerdinger is a relatively poor ally for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.2%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Gnar and Heimerdinger that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Heimerdinger has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Heimerdinger allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, Gnar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Heimerdinger together, you will not be granting your side much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Heimerdinger ally's skill level, you need to 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 learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to work well with Heimerdinger during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Gnar and Heimerdinger 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 Heimerdinger than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 46.2% when playing alongside Heimerdinger with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Gnar players 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 runes we have analyed for Gnar and Heimerdinger pairings, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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