Bard with Gnar
How to Synergize Bard and Gnar
based on 1,136 Bard with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Bard with Gnar
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Bard in LoL
The Bard 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, Bard sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Gnar, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This change may indicate that Gnar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Gnar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top champion pairing for Bard that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Gnar is a very bad companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -3.9% to 48.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Bard and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when finding Gnar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Gnar together, you will not be giving your other allies enough tankyness. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Bard and Gnar synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 48.4% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% win rate overall.
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