Gnar with Zilean
How to Synergize Gnar and Zilean
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Gnar Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Gnar Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Zilean helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Zilean, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Zilean supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Zilean 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 alongside Zilean.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Zilean on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no one best ally for Gnar that will always be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a decent ally for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 50.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a somewhat important bond between Gnar and Zilean that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Zilean comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Zilean together, you will not be granting your team very much attack damage. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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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 Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Gnar and Zilean synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Zilean than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zilean with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing 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. Out of all the runes players used for Gnar and Zilean pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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