Naafiri with Gnar
How to Synergize Naafiri and Gnar
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Naafiri Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Naafiri and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Naafiri with Gnar
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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.
Naafiri Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Naafiri in LoL
The Naafiri Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Naafiri sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Naafiri perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Naafiri is paired with Gnar, they sees a little drop in their full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gnar does not support by providing cover for them to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Naafiri is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Naafiri plays with Gnar on the same team, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of covering Naafiri during team fights.
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Is Naafiri better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal synergy for Naafiri that will no matter what be their #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Naafiri. By playing on the same side as Naafiri, he increases their win rate by 0.7% to 50.9%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Naafiri and Gnar that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Naafiri. That means Naafiri players need to be cautious when finding Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Naafiri players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Naafiri and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Naafiri to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Naafiri and Gnar synergy build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri bought at least these three finished items in their build, they performed a lot better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other typical builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when synergizing their build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Naafiri players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
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