Gnar with Nocturne
How to Synergize Gnar and Nocturne
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Gnar Nocturne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Nocturne
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 Nocturne Will Play
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Gnar Nocturne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nocturne as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nocturne helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Nocturne, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Nocturne supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Nocturne on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nocturne.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Nocturne on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nocturne does a poor job of covering Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Nocturne?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. However, overall, Nocturne is a decent ally for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Gnar and Nocturne that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nocturne comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gnar and Nocturne together, you will not be giving your side very much utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nocturne ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Gnar and Nocturne synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nocturne than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing 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. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nocturne with Gnar are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.