Gnar with Irelia
How to Synergize Gnar and Irelia
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Gnar Irelia Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Gnar Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Irelia helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is paired with Irelia, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Irelia does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Irelia on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Irelia does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Irelia
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Irelia is a good ally for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, she improves their win rate by 1.3% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a good synergy between Gnar and Irelia that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Irelia teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Gnar and Irelia together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Irelia teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 synergize with Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Gnar and Irelia synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Irelia than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 49.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Irelia with Gnar are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.