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.
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
The Gnar Ryze synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ryze, 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 Ryze. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ryze helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Ryze, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Ryze doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Ryze on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ryze. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Ryze.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Ryze on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Ryze does a poor job of covering Gnar during team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Gnar that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Ryze is a very typical ally for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak synergy between Gnar and Ryze that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Ryze has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Ryze teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Ryze together, you may not be granting your team a lot of tankyness. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Ryze teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to synergize with Ryze during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Gnar and Ryze synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Ryze than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 47.9% helping carry Ryze with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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