Gnar with Karma
How to Synergize Gnar and Karma
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Gnar Karma Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Karma
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Karma
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 Karma Will Play
Don't be too conservative with Mantra. Gathering Fire is strongest in teamfights, making it easy to recharge Mantra multiple times.
Gathering Fire rewards aggressive play. Look to land abilities and basic attacks on your opponent to lower Mantra's cooldown and stay on the offensive.
When using Focused Resolve, slow your opponents with Inner Flame or speed yourself up with Inspire if you're having trouble sticking to a target.
Gnar Karma Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karma as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Karma synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karma, 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 Karma. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Karma helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Karma, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Karma supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Karma on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Karma. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Karma.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Karma on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Karma does a poor job of covering Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Karma?
There is no one best ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Karma is a not very good ally for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, she drops their win rate by -2.6% to 45.4%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Gnar and Karma that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Karma has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Karma comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Karma together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Karma ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 pair well with Karma during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Gnar and Karma synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Karma than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 45.4% when playing alongside Karma with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% win rate overall.
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