Gnar with Skarner
How to Synergize Gnar and Skarner
based on 119 Gnar with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Gnar Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Skarner helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar is an ally to Skarner, he sees a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Skarner doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Skarner on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Skarner. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Skarner.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Skarner on the same team, he on average takes less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Skarner
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no one best champion pairing for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Skarner is a below average ally for Gnar. By playing on the same side as Gnar, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 46.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Gnar and Skarner that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Skarner allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Gnar and Skarner together, you probably will not be giving your side enough AP. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Gnar and Skarner synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Force of Nature. When Gnar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Skarner than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 46.2% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you 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 rune builds that we analyzed for Gnar and Skarner pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% win rate overall.
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