Gnar with Kassadin
How to Synergize Gnar and Kassadin
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Gnar Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Gnar Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Kassadin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Kassadin helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Kassadin, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kassadin provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Kassadin on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Kassadin does a poor job of covering Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Kassadin
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no one best ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Kassadin is a relatively poor teammate for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 45.6%. This signals that there is a harmful bond between Gnar and Kassadin that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Kassadin comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, Gnar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Gnar and Kassadin together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that fills this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Kassadin ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to work well with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Gnar and Kassadin synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Kassadin than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 45.6% when playing alongside Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 chose for Gnar and Kassadin pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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