Nami with Gnar
How to Synergize Nami and Gnar
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Nami Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Nami with Gnar
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Nami perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nami plays on the same team as Gnar, she observes a small decrease in her complete damage output. This may signal that Gnar doesn't help cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Gnar on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Nami during teamfights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Nami that will no matter what be her ideal ally. However, overall, Gnar is a below average companion for Nami. By playing on the same team as Nami, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 46.6%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nami and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Nami. That means Nami players should be cautious when enlisting Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Nami players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by pairing Nami and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other allies much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Nami to synergize with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Nami and Gnar synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Dream Maker, and Imperial Mandate. When Nami used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Nami and Gnar pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.6% win rate overall.
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