Darius with Gnar
How to Synergize Darius and Gnar
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Darius Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Darius with Gnar
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Darius perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Darius tries to synergize with Gnar, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Gnar helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Gnar on the same team, he often takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Darius during teamfights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal companion for Darius that will always be his top ally. Yet, Gnar is a very bad teammate for Darius. By being on the same team as Darius, he drops their win rate by -4.5% to 44.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Darius and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Gnar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Darius and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Darius and Gnar synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Sterak's Gage, and Stridebreaker. When Darius incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 44.7% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Unflinching, and Conditioning runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Darius and Gnar pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
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