Gnar with Vel'Koz
How to Synergize Gnar and Vel'Koz
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Gnar Vel'Koz Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Vel'Koz
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Vel'Koz
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 Vel'Koz Will Play
Be very careful about when to use Life Form Disintegration Ray. Many champions have abilities that can interrupt the spell.
Shooting Plasma Fission diagonally and splitting at maximum range allows you to hit opponents that are out of the range of the initial missile, but is more challenging to pull off.
When laning, use Void Rift to kill minions while building stacks of Organic Deconstruction on your opponent. You can then follow up with your other abilities.
Gnar Vel'Koz Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vel'Koz as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Vel'Koz synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vel'Koz, 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 Vel'Koz. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vel'Koz helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Vel'Koz, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Vel'Koz helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Vel'Koz on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vel'Koz. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vel'Koz.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Vel'Koz on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Vel'Koz does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Vel'Koz?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will always be his top ally. Yet, Vel'Koz is a very typical companion for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -0.1% to 47.9%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Gnar and Vel'Koz that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Vel'Koz has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Vel'Koz allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Gnar players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Vel'Koz together, you will not be granting your side a great deal of cover. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Vel'Koz ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 truly master Gnar to pair well with Vel'Koz during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Gnar and Vel'Koz synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vel'Koz than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Vel'Koz with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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