Gnar with Jax
How to Synergize Gnar and Jax
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Gnar Jax Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Jax
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Jax
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 Jax Will Play
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
Gnar Jax Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jax as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Jax synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jax, 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 Jax. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Jax helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Jax, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Jax does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Jax 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 with Jax.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Jax on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Jax does a decent job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Jax?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Jax is a very typical teammate for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 0.5% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Gnar and Jax that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Jax has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when lining up Jax comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, Gnar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Jax together, you will not be granting your side a lot of utility. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Jax ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Jax during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gnar and Jax synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Jax than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.5% helping carry Jax with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you 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 rune sets players picked for Gnar and Jax pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
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