Kayn with Gnar
How to Synergize Kayn and Gnar
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Kayn Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Gnar
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn 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 drop shows that Gnar helps Kayn perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayn plays on the same team as Gnar, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Gnar does not help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Gnar on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Kayn during team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a below average companion for Kayn. By being on the same side as Kayn, he lowers their win rate by -2.2% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Kayn and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when arranging Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Gnar together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of magic damage. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to pair well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to have in your Kayn and Gnar synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Kayn used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Gnar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kayn had an average win rate of 47.0% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Kayn players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% winrate overall.
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