Caitlyn with Gnar
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Gnar
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Caitlyn Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Gnar
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her 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 Caitlyn perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Caitlyn plays on the same team as Gnar, she sees a small decrease in her full damage output. This change could signal that Gnar does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Additionally, when Caitlyn plays with Gnar on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Gnar does a decent job of protecting Caitlyn during team fights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no top ally for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Gnar is a not very good companion for Caitlyn. By being on the same side as Caitlyn, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Caitlyn and Gnar that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Gnar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Caitlyn and Gnar together, you probably will not be providing your team a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Gnar ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 truly master Caitlyn to synergize with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to have in your Caitlyn and Gnar synergy build consist of Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Rapid Firecannon. When Caitlyn incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Gnar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 47.0% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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