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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Gnar Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Ziggs helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Ziggs, he gets a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Ziggs provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Ziggs on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ziggs.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Ziggs on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, Ziggs is a very typical ally for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 48.2%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Gnar and Ziggs that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when arranging Ziggs teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Gnar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Ziggs together, you may not be giving your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Ziggs ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to pair well with Ziggs during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Gnar and Ziggs synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 48.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating 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. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Ziggs with Gnar are displayed for every ranked division. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.