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.
The Gnar Yuumi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yuumi, 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 Yuumi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Yuumi helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Yuumi, he gets a moderate decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Yuumi does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Yuumi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Yuumi.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Yuumi on the same side, he usually takes less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Yuumi does a decent job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Yuumi is a terrible teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -6.8% to 41.2%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Gnar and Yuumi that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Yuumi has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Yuumi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gnar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Yuumi together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough tankyness. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Yuumi teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to synergize with Yuumi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Gnar and Yuumi synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Yuumi than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 41.2% helping carry Yuumi with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for Gnar and Yuumi pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 41.2% win rate overall.
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