Gnar with Volibear
How to Synergize Gnar and Volibear
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Gnar Volibear Synergy Summary
Best Gnar vs Volibear Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Volibear
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.
Gnar Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Volibear helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Volibear, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may signal that Volibear does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Volibear on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Volibear.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Volibear on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of protecting Gnar in teamfights.
Synergies between Gnar and Volibear
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no top synergy for Gnar that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Volibear is a relatively poor teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, he decreases their win rate by -1.5% to 46.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Gnar and Volibear that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be cautious when finding Volibear comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Gnar players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Gnar and Volibear together, you may not be providing your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar in order to pair well with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Gnar and Volibear synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Volibear than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average win rate of 46.5% helping carry Volibear with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Gnar players 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 players picked for Gnar and Volibear pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Volibear with Gnar are given for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.