Gnar with Swain
How to Synergize Gnar and Swain
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Gnar Swain Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Swain
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Swain
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 Swain Will Play
While laning, try to use Death's Hand's piercing damage to damage opponents from a safe distance.
Vision of Empire is quite difficult to land on its own, look for skirmishes around the map where enemies may be distracted or crowd controlled so you can land it more easily.
If you're having trouble rooting an enemy with Nevermove, try throwing it at opponents when they are near their minions so the explosion surprises them.
Demonic Ascension may make Swain very hard to kill but he's pretty easy to get away from. Try building items that can slow opponents to keep them in range if their mobility is overwhelming.
Gnar Swain Synergy Stats
How to Play with Swain as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Swain synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Swain, 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 Swain. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Swain helps Gnar perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is an ally to Swain, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Swain does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Swain on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Swain.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Swain on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Swain does a decent job of covering Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Swain?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, overall, Swain is a fantastic ally for Gnar. By being on the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 3.5% to 51.5%. This proves that there is a strong strategic relationship between Gnar and Swain that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Swain has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Swain allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing together, Gnar players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Gnar and Swain together, you will not be giving your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Swain ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar in order to work well with Swain during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Gnar and Swain synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar included at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Swain than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Swain with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of beating 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 runes players used for Gnar and Swain pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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