Gnar with Zyra
How to Synergize Gnar and Zyra
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Gnar Zyra Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Zyra
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Zyra
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 Zyra Will Play
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
Gnar Zyra Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zyra as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Zyra synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zyra, 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 Zyra. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Zyra helps Gnar perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar tries to synergize with Zyra, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Zyra provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Zyra on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zyra.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Zyra on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Zyra does a poor job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Zyra?
There is no one best synergy for Gnar that will always be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Zyra is a top-tier teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same side as Gnar, she raises their win rate by 3.5% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Gnar and Zyra that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Zyra has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when finding Zyra teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Zyra together, you probably will not be giving your other allies very much protection for burst damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Zyra teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Gnar to work well with Zyra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Gnar and Zyra synergy build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Gnar bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zyra than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 51.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zyra with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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