Gnar with Graves
How to Synergize Gnar and Graves
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Gnar Graves Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Graves
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Gnar Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Graves helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Graves, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Graves does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Graves.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Graves on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Graves does a decent job of protecting Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Graves?
There is no top synergy for Gnar that will always be his ideal ally. However, Graves is a good ally for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 50.1%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Gnar and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when finding Graves teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Gnar and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough crowd control. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to synergize with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to focus on in your Gnar and Graves synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Graves than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Graves with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.1% win rate overall.
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