Graves with Gnar
How to Synergize Graves and Gnar
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Graves Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Graves and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Graves with Gnar
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
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.
Graves Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Graves in LoL
The Graves Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Graves sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Graves perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Graves is an ally to Gnar, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Gnar supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Graves is played together with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Graves plays with Gnar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Graves in team fights.
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Is Graves better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect ally for Graves that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. Yet, Gnar is a very typical companion for Graves. By locking into the same team as Graves, he drops their win rate by -0.4% to 50.1%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Graves and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Graves. That means you must be careful when finding Gnar allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Graves players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Graves and Gnar together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves in order to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Graves and Gnar synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 50.1% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Graves and Gnar pairings, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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