Elise with Gnar
How to Synergize Elise and Gnar
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Elise Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Elise vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Elise and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Elise with Gnar
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Elise in LoL
The Elise 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, Elise 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 negative change shows that Gnar helps Elise perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Elise is an ally to Gnar, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This may signal that Gnar helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Elise is played together with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Gnar.
Additionally, when Elise plays with Gnar on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Gnar does a poor job of covering Elise in team fights.
Synergies between Elise and Gnar
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Is Elise better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect companion for Elise that will no matter what be her best ally. However, overall, Gnar is a terrible teammate for Elise. By being on the same side as Elise, he decreases their win rate by -3.1% to 45.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Elise and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Elise. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Gnar teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Elise and Gnar together, you may not be giving your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Gnar ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Elise to work well with Gnar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Elise and Gnar synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three great items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Gnar than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 45.0% when playing alongside Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Elise and Gnar pairings, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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