Zed with Gnar
How to Synergize Zed and Gnar
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Zed Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Zed with Gnar
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gnar helps Zed perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed plays on the same team as Gnar, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Gnar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Gnar on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best synergy for Zed that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, overall, Gnar is a not very good ally for Zed. By locking into the same team as Zed, he decreases their win rate by -1.6% to 46.8%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Zed and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players must be cautious when finding Gnar teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zed players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Zed and Gnar together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed to work well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Zed and Gnar synergy build include Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.8% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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