Gnar with Katarina
How to Synergize Gnar and Katarina
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Gnar Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Gnar Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Katarina helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Katarina, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Katarina 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 with Katarina.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Katarina on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Katarina
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Katarina is a decent ally for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, she increases their win rate by 2.9% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Gnar and Katarina that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Katarina comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to work well with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Gnar and Katarina synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Katarina than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 builds that we analyzed for Gnar and Katarina pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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