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.
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
The Gnar Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vladimir helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is paired with Vladimir, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Vladimir does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Vladimir on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of covering Gnar during team fights.
There is no perfect champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Vladimir is a pretty good companion for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 50.6%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Gnar and Vladimir that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Vladimir allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Gnar and Vladimir together, you may not be giving your other teammates a great deal of utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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 Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Gnar and Vladimir synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Vladimir than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 50.6% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing 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 sets players used for Gnar and Vladimir pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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