Gnar with Lee Sin
How to Synergize Gnar and Lee Sin
based on 1,123 Gnar with Lee Sin pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gnar Lee Sin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Gnar and Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Gnar with Lee Sin
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.
Advice to Understand How Lee Sin Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Gnar Lee Sin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lee Sin as Gnar in LoL
The Gnar Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Gnar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Lee Sin. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Lee Sin helps Gnar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Gnar plays on the same team as Lee Sin, he sees a small increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Lee Sin helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played alongside Lee Sin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Lee Sin.
Moreover, when Gnar plays with Lee Sin on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of protecting Gnar during team fights.
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Is Gnar better when played alongside Lee Sin?
There is no ideal ally for Gnar that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Lee Sin is a not very good ally for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he decreases their win rate by -3.0% to 45.0%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Gnar and Lee Sin that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Gnar. That means Gnar players don't need to be careful when enlisting Lee Sin teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Gnar players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Gnar and Lee Sin together, you probably will not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Lee Sin ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gnar to synergize with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to build first in your Gnar and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Lee Sin than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 45.0% when playing alongside Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Gnar players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Gnar and Lee Sin pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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