Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Rumble perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is paired with Gnar, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This change could indicate that Gnar supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Rumble plays with Gnar on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Rumble in teamfights.
There is no ideal ally for Rumble that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Gnar is a very typical companion for Rumble. By locking into the same team as Rumble, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 49.3%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Rumble and Gnar that results in them performing at the same level together than without each other.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means Rumble players don't need to be cautious when finding Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Rumble players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Rumble and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Rumble in order to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Rumble and Gnar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Rumble boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.3% winrate overall.
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