Gnar with Nami
How to Synergize Gnar and Nami
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Gnar Nami Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Nami
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Nami
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 Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Gnar Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nami helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Nami, he observes a small increase in his full damage output. This could signal that Nami supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Nami 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 alongside Nami.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Nami on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nami does a decent job of covering Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Nami?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will always be his #1 teammate. However, Nami is a below average companion for Gnar. By being on the same side as Gnar, she lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Gnar and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nami teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gnar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Gnar and Nami together, you may not be giving your other allies enough tankyness. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nami ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Gnar and Nami synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nami than with many other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.6% helping carry Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating 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 builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nami with Gnar are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.