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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Gnar Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Orianna helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Orianna, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Orianna helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Orianna on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Orianna does a decent job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Orianna is a terrible companion for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, she drops their win rate by -3.6% to 44.4%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Gnar and Orianna that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Orianna comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Gnar players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Gnar and Orianna together, you may not be giving your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Orianna ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to work well with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Gnar and Orianna synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Orianna than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 44.4% helping carry Orianna with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Gnar and Orianna pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.4% winrate overall.
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