Gnar with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Gnar and Xin Zhao
based on 1,210 Gnar with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Gnar Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Xin Zhao helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Xin Zhao, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could signal that Xin Zhao doesn't help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played with Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Xin Zhao. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Gnar in team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical teammate for Gnar. By playing on the same team as Gnar, he increases their win rate by 0.9% to 48.9%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Gnar and Xin Zhao that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Gnar. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Gnar players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Gnar and Xin Zhao together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Gnar to synergize with Xin Zhao during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Gnar and Xin Zhao synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Xin Zhao than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 48.9% helping carry Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.9% win rate overall.
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