Gnar with Nunu & Willump
How to Synergize Gnar and Nunu & Willump
based on 940 Gnar with Nunu & Willump pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Nunu & Willump Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump Will Play
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Gnar Nunu & Willump Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nunu & Willump as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Nunu & Willump synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nunu & Willump, 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 Nunu & Willump. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nunu & Willump helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Nunu & Willump, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This could signal that Nunu & Willump helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Nunu & Willump on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nunu & Willump.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Nunu & Willump on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nunu & Willump does a decent job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Nunu & Willump
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Nunu & Willump?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Gnar that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Nunu & Willump is a very typical companion for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 0.5% to 48.5%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Gnar and Nunu & Willump that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nunu & Willump has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when finding Nunu & Willump comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Gnar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gnar and Nunu & Willump together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nunu & Willump ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Nunu & Willump during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Gnar and Nunu & Willump synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nunu & Willump than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Nunu & Willump with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip 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 combinations players chose for Gnar and Nunu & Willump pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.5% winrate overall.
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