Maokai with Gnar
How to Synergize Maokai and Gnar
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Maokai Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Maokai vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Gnar
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack 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.
Maokai Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai 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 drop shows that Gnar helps Maokai perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai is paired with Gnar, he gets a little drop in his total damage output. This change could demonstrate that Gnar does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Gnar on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect ally for Maokai that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a very typical companion for Maokai. By playing on the same side as Maokai, he increases their win rate by 0.1% to 52.7%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Maokai and Gnar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Maokai. That means Maokai players need to be very careful when finding Gnar teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Maokai players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by aligning Maokai and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to work well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to get in your Maokai and Gnar synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Maokai included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 52.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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