Gnar with Gangplank
How to Synergize Gnar and Gangplank
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Gnar Gangplank Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Gangplank
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Gangplank
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 Gangplank Will Play
Try placing Cannon Barrage on the path of escape to cut off fleeing enemies.
Parrrley applies On Hit effects like Frozen Mallet or Black Cleaver.
Paying attention to low-health enemies on the map can land you a surprise kill with Cannon Barrage.
Gnar Gangplank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gangplank as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Gangplank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gangplank, 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 Gangplank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gangplank helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Gangplank, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Gangplank supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Gangplank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gangplank.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Gangplank on the same team, he on average receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gangplank does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Gangplank
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Gangplank?
There is no top champion pairing for Gnar that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Gangplank is a very bad ally for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -4.9% to 43.1%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Gnar and Gangplank that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gangplank has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players should be cautious when enlisting Gangplank comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Gangplank together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of utility. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gangplank ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To truly master Gnar in order to pair well with Gangplank during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Gnar and Gangplank synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Gangplank than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 43.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gangplank with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.1% win rate overall.
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