Akshan with Gnar
How to Synergize Akshan and Gnar
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Akshan Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akshan and Gnar
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Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Akshan in LoL
The Akshan Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akshan sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Akshan perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akshan tries to synergize with Gnar, they gets a small increase in their full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gnar helps provide cover for them to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Akshan is played together with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Akshan plays with Gnar on the same team, they often takes a little less damage than when they fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Akshan during teamfights.
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Is Akshan better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal ally for Akshan that will 100% of the time be their #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Gnar is a terrible teammate for Akshan. By playing on the same side as Akshan, he decreases their win rate by -4.6% to 44.4%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Akshan and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Akshan. That means you need to be cautious when finding Gnar allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Akshan and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of AP. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Akshan in order to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Akshan and Gnar synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when paired up with Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 44.4% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Akshan players should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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