Kayle with Gnar
How to Synergize Kayle and Gnar
based on 218 Kayle with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Gnar
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Kayle perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayle plays on the same team as Gnar, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Gnar does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played with 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 Kayle plays with Gnar on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Kayle in teamfights.
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Kayle that will 100% of the time be her ideal teammate. However, Gnar is a very bad companion for Kayle. By locking into the same side as Kayle, he lowers their win rate by -5.0% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Kayle and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Kayle. That means Kayle players need to be careful when arranging Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kayle and Gnar together, you may not be granting your side much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayle in order to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Kayle and Gnar synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Kayle used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayle had an average winrate of 46.3% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Kayle and Gnar pairings, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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