Vi with Gnar
How to Synergize Vi and Gnar
based on 1,071 Vi with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vi Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Vi with Gnar
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Vi perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi is an ally to Gnar, she gets a barely noticable drop in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Gnar does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Vi in team fights.
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Is Vi better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Vi that will 100% of the time be her top teammate. Yet, Gnar is a below average companion for Vi. By locking into the same side as Vi, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 49.0%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Vi and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Vi. That means you must be cautious when arranging Gnar comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, Vi players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Vi and Gnar together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Vi to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Vi and Gnar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Sundered Sky. When Vi used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Vi had an average winrate of 49.0% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.0% win rate overall.
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