Gnar with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Gnar and Kai'Sa
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Gnar Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Gnar Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Kai'Sa helps Gnar perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Kai'Sa, he gets a small increase in his full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Kai'Sa provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a poor job of covering Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Kai'Sa
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no top companion for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Kai'Sa is a relatively poor ally for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -2.0% to 46.0%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Gnar and Kai'Sa that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kai'Sa teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of utility. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Kai'Sa ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
If you would like to truly master Gnar in order to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Gnar and Kai'Sa synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Force of Nature. When Gnar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing alongside Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing 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 runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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