Gnar with Nilah
How to Synergize Gnar and Nilah
based on 651 Gnar with Nilah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Nilah Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Nilah
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.
Gnar Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nilah helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Nilah, he observes a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Nilah does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nilah. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nilah.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Nilah on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Nilah
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no one best ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Nilah is a below average companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, they decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gnar and Nilah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means you should be very careful when arranging Nilah teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Gnar and Nilah together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nilah teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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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 Nilah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Gnar and Nilah synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Gnar had an average winrate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Gnar players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Nilah with Gnar are shown for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.