Lucian with Gnar
How to Synergize Lucian and Gnar
based on 2,351 Lucian with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lucian Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Gnar
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian is paired with Gnar, he gets a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Gnar does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Lucian in teamfights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best ally for Lucian that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Gnar is a relatively poor ally for Lucian. By being on the same side as Lucian, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 46.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Lucian and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players need to be careful when enlisting Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Lucian and Gnar together, you may not be giving your side much support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Lucian and Gnar synergy build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Bloodthirster, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 46.7% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lucian and Gnar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.7% winrate overall.
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