Gnar with Zed
How to Synergize Gnar and Zed
based on 1,185 Gnar with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Zed Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Zed
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Gnar Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zed helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Zed, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This could indicate that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Zed 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 Zed.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Zed does a poor job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Zed
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Zed?
There is no top ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Zed is a below average teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Gnar and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Zed together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to synergize with Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Gnar and Zed synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zed than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Gnar and Zed pairings, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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