Gnar with Illaoi
How to Synergize Gnar and Illaoi
based on 51 Gnar with Illaoi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Illaoi Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Gnar Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 Illaoi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Illaoi helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Illaoi, he sees a pretty big loss in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Illaoi does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Illaoi.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Illaoi on the same side, he on average receives less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Illaoi
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. Yet, Illaoi is a very bad companion for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -12.7% to 35.3%. This proves that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Gnar and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when arranging Illaoi teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Gnar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Illaoi together, you probably will not be providing your team much support. Plan to include other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to work well with Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Gnar and Illaoi synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Illaoi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 35.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Gnar and Illaoi pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 35.3% win rate overall.
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