Gnar with Akali
How to Synergize Gnar and Akali
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Gnar Akali Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Akali
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Gnar Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gnar sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Akali helps Gnar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Akali, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Akali supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Akali on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Akali. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Akali.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Akali on the same side, he often takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Akali?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his best ally. Yet, Akali is a relatively poor ally for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 46.6%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Gnar and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when lining up Akali teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Gnar and Akali together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Akali ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to synergize with Akali during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Gnar and Akali synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
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