Illaoi with Gnar
How to Synergize Illaoi and Gnar
based on 51 Illaoi with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Gnar
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Understand How Gnar Will Play
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.
Illaoi Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Illaoi perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi plays on the same team as Gnar, she sees a large drop in her full damage dealt. This change may indicate that Gnar does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Gnar on the same side, she on average takes less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Illaoi in team fights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Gnar
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect ally for Illaoi that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Gnar is a terrible companion for Illaoi. By playing on the same team as Illaoi, he lowers their win rate by -14.3% to 35.3%. This signals that there is a terrible bond between Illaoi and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means Illaoi players should be cautious when lining up Gnar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Illaoi players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by aligning Illaoi and Gnar together, you may not be providing your team a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Illaoi in order to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Illaoi and Gnar synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average win rate of 35.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Illaoi players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Last Stand runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Illaoi and Gnar pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 35.3% win rate overall.
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