Gnar with Poppy
How to Synergize Gnar and Poppy
based on 353 Gnar with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Gnar Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Poppy, he gets a clear improvement in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Poppy supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Poppy on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Poppy.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
Synergies between Gnar and Poppy
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Gnar that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Poppy is a not very good companion for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, she drops their win rate by -2.7% to 45.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative bond between Gnar and Poppy that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be very careful when arranging Poppy teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Gnar and Poppy together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Poppy teammate, you should focus on increasing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to synergize with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Gnar and Poppy synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Poppy than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 45.3% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Poppy with Gnar are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu located at the top of this page.