Volibear with Gnar
How to Synergize Volibear and Gnar
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Volibear Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Gnar
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.
Volibear Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gnar helps Volibear perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Gnar, he sees a pretty big loss in his total damage output. This change may signal that Gnar does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Gnar on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Gnar does a decent job of covering Volibear during teamfights.
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best synergy for Volibear that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Gnar is a below average companion for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 46.5%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Volibear and Gnar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you must be very careful when arranging Gnar comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Volibear players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Volibear and Gnar together, you will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of support. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Volibear in order to pair well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Volibear and Gnar synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Heartsteel, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other common builds. In fact, Volibear boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.5% winrate overall.
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