Gnar with Shaco
How to Synergize Gnar and Shaco
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Gnar Shaco Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Gnar Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Shaco helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Shaco, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Shaco helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Shaco on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of covering Gnar during teamfights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Shaco is a good teammate for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.0%. This signals that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Gnar and Shaco that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players must be cautious when enlisting Shaco comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Gnar and Shaco together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of support. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Shaco ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 pair well with Shaco during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Gnar and Shaco synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Shaco than with most other common builds. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.0% helping carry Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Gnar players 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 combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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