Zilean with Gnar
How to Synergize Zilean and Gnar
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Zilean Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Gnar
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean 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 negative change shows that Gnar helps Zilean perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zilean is paired with Gnar, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Gnar supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Moreover, when Zilean plays with Gnar on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Gnar does a decent job of covering Zilean in team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no one best ally for Zilean that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Zilean. By being on the same team as Zilean, he raises their win rate by 0.1% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Zilean and Gnar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you should be cautious when finding Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Zilean players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zilean and Gnar together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zilean to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Zilean and Gnar synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average winrate of 50.8% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.8% win rate overall.
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