Gnar with Brand
How to Synergize Gnar and Brand
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Gnar Brand Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Brand
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Gnar Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Brand, he observes a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Brand provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Brand on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Brand on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Brand does a poor job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top companion for Gnar that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Brand is a good teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 1.5% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Gnar and Brand that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Brand teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gnar players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Brand together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of cover. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to pair well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to focus on in your Gnar and Brand synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Brand than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.5% when playing alongside Brand with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 runes players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Brand with Gnar are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.