Warwick with Gnar
How to Synergize Warwick and Gnar
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Warwick Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Gnar
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a large worsening 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 Warwick perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Warwick tries to synergize with Gnar, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Gnar doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Warwick during teamfights.
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Warwick that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Gnar is a below average companion for Warwick. By playing on the same team as Warwick, he drops their win rate by -2.3% to 47.0%. This proves that there is a negative strategic relationship between Warwick and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means you must be very careful when arranging Gnar allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Warwick and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much AP. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Warwick in order to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Warwick and Gnar synergy build include Thornmail, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Gnar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick boasted an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Warwick players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Warwick and Gnar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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