Gnar with Xerath
How to Synergize Gnar and Xerath
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Gnar Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Xerath
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 Xerath Will Play
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
Gnar Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xerath helps Gnar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Xerath, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Xerath provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Xerath 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 alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Xerath on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Xerath does a poor job of covering Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Xerath
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, overall, Xerath is a good companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 1.2% to 49.2%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Gnar and Xerath that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when finding Xerath comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gnar and Xerath together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to pair well with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to build first in your Gnar and Xerath synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when playing alongside Xerath with these items in his kit.
To have the best 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Xerath with Gnar are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.