Gnar with Vi
How to Synergize Gnar and Vi
based on 1,071 Gnar with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Vi Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Vi
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Gnar Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vi helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Vi, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This change may demonstrate that Vi provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Vi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Vi.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Vi on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Vi does a poor job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Vi
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Vi is a pretty good ally for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, she increases their win rate by 1.0% to 49.0%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Gnar and Vi that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Vi comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Vi together, you will not be giving your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Vi ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to work well with Vi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Gnar and Vi synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Vi than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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 that we analyzed for Gnar and Vi pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.0% winrate overall.
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