Orianna with Gnar
How to Synergize Orianna and Gnar
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Orianna Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Orianna vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Orianna and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Orianna with Gnar
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Orianna in LoL
The Orianna 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, Orianna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Orianna perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Orianna is an ally to Gnar, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Gnar helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Orianna during team fights.
Synergies between Orianna and Gnar
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Is Orianna better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Gnar is a very bad teammate for Orianna. By playing on the same team as Orianna, he lowers their win rate by -3.1% to 44.4%. This proves that there is a very bad synergy between Orianna and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players need to be careful when lining up Gnar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Orianna and Gnar together, you may not be giving your team a lot of protection for burst damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 Orianna 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 gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to include in your Orianna and Gnar synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 44.4% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Orianna players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Orianna and Gnar pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Gnar with Orianna are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.