Aphelios with Gnar
How to Synergize Aphelios and Gnar
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Aphelios Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Gnar
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios 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 worsening shows that Gnar helps Aphelios perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Gnar, he observes a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Gnar does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios 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 alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Aphelios plays with Gnar on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Aphelios in team fights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top companion for Aphelios that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Gnar is a relatively poor ally for Aphelios. By locking into the same side as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 46.8%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Aphelios and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when lining up Gnar comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Aphelios and Gnar together, you may not be granting your team much magic damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to include in your Aphelios and Gnar synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Stormrazor. When Aphelios bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Gnar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing alongside Gnar with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, Aphelios players should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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