Shyvana with Gnar
How to Synergize Shyvana and Gnar
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Shyvana Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Gnar
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana 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, Shyvana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gnar helps Shyvana perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shyvana is an ally to Gnar, she gets a small decrease in her full damage output. This difference may signal that Gnar does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Shyvana during teamfights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Gnar
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Shyvana that will always be her top ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a relatively poor teammate for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, he decreases their win rate by -2.0% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Shyvana and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players must be careful when arranging Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, Shyvana players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Shyvana and Gnar together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shyvana to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Shyvana and Gnar synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, Shyvana players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Shyvana and Gnar pairings, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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