Gnar with Riven
How to Synergize Gnar and Riven
based on 110 Gnar with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Riven Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Riven
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Gnar Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Riven helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Riven, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This may signal that Riven doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Riven. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Riven.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Riven does a poor job of covering Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Riven
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Riven?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Riven is a good companion for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, she raises their win rate by 2.0% to 50.0%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Gnar and Riven that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Riven has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Riven teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Riven during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to get in your Gnar and Riven synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Riven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Riven with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Gnar players should equip 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 players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% winrate overall.
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