Gwen with Gnar
How to Synergize Gwen and Gnar
based on 183 Gwen with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Gnar
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Gwen perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen is paired with Gnar, she sees a measurable drop in her total damage dealt. This may indicate that Gnar does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gwen is played with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Gwen plays with Gnar on the same side, she on average receives more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Gwen in team fights.
Synergies between Gwen and Gnar
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top companion for Gwen that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Gnar is a very bad companion for Gwen. By locking into the same team as Gwen, he lowers their win rate by -5.5% to 42.6%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Gwen and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Gwen. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Gnar comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gwen and Gnar together, you may not be granting your team very much support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gwen to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Gwen and Gnar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Gnar than with most other common builds. In fact, Gwen boasted an average win rate of 42.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Gwen players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gnar with Gwen are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.