Kassadin with Gnar
How to Synergize Kassadin and Gnar
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Kassadin Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Gnar
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gnar helps Kassadin perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kassadin is an ally to Gnar, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Gnar helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played together with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Gnar on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Kassadin during team fights.
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top ally for Kassadin that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Gnar is a very bad ally for Kassadin. By being on the same side as Kassadin, he drops their win rate by -4.4% to 45.6%. This shows that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Kassadin and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means Kassadin players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gnar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Kassadin players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kassadin and Gnar together, you will not be giving your other teammates very much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Gnar synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin used at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average win rate of 45.6% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Gnar with Kassadin are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.