Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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 Tristana 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, Tristana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Tristana perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana tries to synergize with Gnar, she gets a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Gnar provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Tristana in teamfights.
There is no one best ally for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Tristana. By playing on the same side as Tristana, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Tristana and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means Tristana players must be cautious when enlisting Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Tristana and Gnar together, you may not be providing your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Tristana in order to pair well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Tristana and Gnar synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Tristana boasted an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Tristana players should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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