Nocturne with Gnar
How to Synergize Nocturne and Gnar
based on 2,037 Nocturne with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nocturne Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Nocturne vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nocturne and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Nocturne with Gnar
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
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.
Nocturne Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Nocturne in LoL
The Nocturne 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, Nocturne sees a very large drop 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 Nocturne perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nocturne plays on the same team as Gnar, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Gnar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nocturne is played with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Nocturne plays with Gnar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Nocturne in teamfights.
Synergies between Nocturne and Gnar
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Is Nocturne better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no ideal companion for Nocturne that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Gnar is a below average ally for Nocturne. By locking into the same team as Nocturne, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 50.4%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nocturne and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Nocturne. That means Nocturne players should be careful when lining up Gnar teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nocturne and Gnar together, you may not be providing your side much support. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nocturne in order to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Nocturne and Gnar synergy build include Experimental Hexplate, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Nocturne used at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nocturne boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
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