Gnar with Kennen
How to Synergize Gnar and Kennen
based on 186 Gnar with Kennen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Gnar Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Gnar perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Kennen, he observes a small increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Kennen helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Kennen 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 synergisticly with Kennen.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Kennen on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Kennen
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gnar that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Kennen is a below average teammate for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 45.7%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Gnar and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kennen has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Kennen teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Gnar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Kennen together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much tankyness. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Kennen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to pair well with Kennen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Gnar and Kennen synergy build consist of Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Kennen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 45.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest probability 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.7% winrate overall.
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