Gnar with Naafiri
How to Synergize Gnar and Naafiri
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Gnar Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Naafiri
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 Naafiri Will Play
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Gnar Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Naafiri helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Naafiri, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Naafiri does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Naafiri 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 alongside Naafiri.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Naafiri on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no top companion for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, overall, Naafiri is a decent ally for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, they raises their win rate by 2.9% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Gnar and Naafiri that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when finding Naafiri allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gnar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Naafiri together, you may not be giving your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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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 Naafiri during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gnar and Naafiri synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Naafiri than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing alongside Naafiri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players should take 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 we have analyed for Gnar and Naafiri pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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