Irelia with Gnar
How to Synergize Irelia and Gnar
based on 402 Irelia with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Gnar
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Gnar helps Irelia perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia is paired with Gnar, she gets a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change could signal that Gnar provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played alongside Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Gnar on the same team, she often takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Gnar does a decent job of covering Irelia in team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Gnar
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal ally for Irelia that will no matter what be her top synergy. Yet, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Irelia. By locking into the same team as Irelia, he lowers their win rate by -0.5% to 49.3%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Irelia and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Irelia. That means Irelia players should be careful when finding Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Irelia and Gnar together, you may not be providing your side enough support. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia to synergize with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Irelia and Gnar synergy build consist of Experimental Hexplate, Wit's End, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Irelia bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 49.3% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Irelia players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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