Thresh with Gnar
How to Synergize Thresh and Gnar
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Thresh Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Gnar
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Thresh perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Thresh is an ally to Gnar, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Gnar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played together with 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.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Thresh during team fights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Gnar is a below average companion for Thresh. By playing on the same side as Thresh, he lowers their win rate by -1.3% to 47.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Thresh and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means you should be cautious when arranging Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Thresh players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Thresh and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your side enough AD. We recommend you have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Thresh in order to synergize with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Thresh and Gnar synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Thresh incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average winrate of 47.2% helping carry Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Thresh players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.2% winrate overall.
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