Gnar with Akshan
How to Synergize Gnar and Akshan
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Gnar Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
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.”
Gnar Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akshan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akshan helps Gnar perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Akshan, he observes a little drop in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Akshan doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that their support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Akshan on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akshan.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Akshan on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akshan does a poor job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no one best companion for Gnar that will always be his best synergy. However, Akshan is a very bad ally for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, they drops their win rate by -3.6% to 44.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Gnar and Akshan that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when arranging Akshan comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by grouping Gnar and Akshan together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Akshan ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Gnar and Akshan synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 44.4% when playing alongside Akshan with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Gnar and Akshan pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.4% win rate overall.
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