Gnar with Olaf
How to Synergize Gnar and Olaf
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Gnar Olaf Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Gnar Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Olaf helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Olaf, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Olaf provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Olaf on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Olaf. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Olaf on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Olaf does a poor job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top champion pairing for Gnar that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Olaf is a fantastic companion for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 7.2% to 55.2%. This demonstrates that there is a strong bond between Gnar and Olaf that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Olaf teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gnar and Olaf together, you may not be granting your side a lot of support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Olaf ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 synergize with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Gnar and Olaf synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 55.2% helping carry Olaf with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.2% winrate overall.
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