Gnar with Nautilus
How to Synergize Gnar and Nautilus
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Gnar Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Nautilus
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 Nautilus Will Play
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Gnar Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, 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 Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nautilus helps Gnar perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Nautilus, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Nautilus doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Nautilus on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Nautilus
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -0.5% to 47.5%. This shows that there is only a small synergy between Gnar and Nautilus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when finding Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Nautilus together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar to pair well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gnar and Nautilus synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Gnar combined at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nautilus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.5% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Gnar players 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Nautilus with Gnar are shown for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.