Olaf with Gnar
How to Synergize Olaf and Gnar
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Olaf Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Gnar
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Olaf perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is paired with Gnar, he sees a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could signal that Gnar does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Olaf in team fights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal synergy for Olaf that will always be his top ally. Yet, Gnar is a fantastic companion for Olaf. By being on the same side as Olaf, he increases their win rate by 6.2% to 55.2%. This signals that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Olaf and Gnar that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you should be very careful when lining up Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Olaf and Gnar together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of crowd control. Plan to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Olaf in order to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Olaf and Gnar synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Maw of Malmortius, and Death's Dance. When Olaf bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf boasted an average win rate of 55.2% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 55.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gnar with Olaf are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.