Gnar with Zac
How to Synergize Gnar and Zac
based on 731 Gnar with Zac pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Zac Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Zac
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Gnar Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zac. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zac helps Gnar perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Zac, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This could indicate that Zac helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zac.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Zac on the same team, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Zac
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Zac?
There is no ideal companion for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zac is a superb ally for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 4.8% to 52.8%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Gnar and Zac that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Zac comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Gnar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Zac together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zac ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to work well with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Gnar and Zac synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Zac than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 52.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zac with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Gnar players 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 sets we have analyed for Gnar and Zac pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.8% winrate overall.
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