Gnar with Lux
How to Synergize Gnar and Lux
based on 3,980 Gnar with Lux pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Lux Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Lux
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Lux
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 Lux Will Play
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
Gnar Lux Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lux as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Lux synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lux, 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 Lux. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lux helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Lux, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Lux helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Lux on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Lux.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Lux on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Lux does a poor job of covering Gnar during teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Lux
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Lux?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Lux is a relatively poor companion for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -1.6% to 46.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful bond between Gnar and Lux that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lux has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Lux teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gnar and Lux together, you may not be providing your team much sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Lux ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to synergize with Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Gnar and Lux synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Lux than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Lux with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Legend: Alacrity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gnar and Lux pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
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