Gnar with Rakan
How to Synergize Gnar and Rakan
based on 1,111 Gnar with Rakan pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Rakan Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Rakan
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Rakan
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 Rakan Will Play
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
Gnar Rakan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rakan as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Rakan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rakan, 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 Rakan. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rakan helps Gnar perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Rakan, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Rakan helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Rakan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rakan.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Rakan on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Rakan does a decent job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Rakan?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will always be his ideal teammate. However, overall, Rakan is a terrible teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he drops their win rate by -3.2% to 44.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad bond between Gnar and Rakan that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Rakan has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Rakan comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Rakan together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Rakan ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 Rakan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Gnar and Rakan synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Rakan than with many other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 44.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rakan with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating 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. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Gnar and Rakan pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.8% win rate overall.
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