Katarina with Gnar
How to Synergize Katarina and Gnar
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Katarina Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Gnar
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Katarina perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Gnar, she observes a little increase in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Gnar supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Katarina during team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Gnar
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Katarina that will always be her #1 synergy. However, overall, Gnar is a good teammate for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 2.1% to 50.9%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Katarina and Gnar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when arranging Gnar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Katarina players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Gnar together, you will not be granting your side very much crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Katarina in order to pair well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Katarina and Gnar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Katarina players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
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