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.
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
The Gnar Lissandra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lissandra, 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 Lissandra. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lissandra helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Lissandra, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Lissandra supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Lissandra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lissandra.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Lissandra on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Lissandra does a poor job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
There is no one best companion for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Lissandra is a below average ally for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, she decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 46.4%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Gnar and Lissandra that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Lissandra has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Lissandra allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Lissandra together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Lissandra ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to have in your Gnar and Lissandra synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Lissandra than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 46.4% when playing alongside Lissandra with these items in his kit.
To have the best 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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