Gnar with Maokai
How to Synergize Gnar and Maokai
based on 1,485 Gnar with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Maokai Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Gnar Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Gnar Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is paired with Maokai, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Maokai supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Maokai on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Maokai.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Maokai does a decent job of covering Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Maokai
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Gnar better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Maokai is a top-tier ally for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 4.7% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is an important strategic relationship between Gnar and Maokai that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Maokai comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Maokai together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gnar
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Gnar Players
How We Calculated Our Gnar Maokai Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to pair well with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Gnar and Maokai synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Maokai than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when playing alongside Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gnar and Maokai pairings, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% winrate overall.
If you would like to see Gnar and Maokai synergy tips and stats for a a particular division, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. By default, the stats and strategies given are computed using all matches finished with both champs.