Gnar with Talon
How to Synergize Gnar and Talon
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Gnar Talon Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Talon
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Talon
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 Talon Will Play
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Gnar Talon Synergy Stats
How to Play with Talon as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Talon synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Talon, 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 Talon. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Talon helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Talon, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Talon provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Talon on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Talon.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Talon on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Talon does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Talon?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Talon is a good companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 2.0% to 50.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Gnar and Talon that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Talon has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Talon comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Talon together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Talon ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 Talon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Gnar and Talon synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Talon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Talon with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.0% winrate overall.
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