Gnar with Leona
How to Synergize Gnar and Leona
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Gnar Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Leona
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Gnar Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Leona helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Leona, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Leona supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Leona on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Leona. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Leona on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Leona does a decent job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Leona?
There is no ideal companion for Gnar that will always be his best ally. However, Leona is a good teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, she raises their win rate by 2.2% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Gnar and Leona that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Leona comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Gnar and Leona together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to pair well with Leona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Gnar and Leona synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Leona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when playing alongside Leona with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
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