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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Gnar Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Rumble helps Gnar perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gnar is paired with Rumble, he gets a noticable increase in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Rumble supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Gnar is played together with Rumble on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Rumble.
Additionally, when Gnar plays with Rumble on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Rumble does a poor job of covering Gnar during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Gnar that will always be his top synergy. However, overall, Rumble is a decent teammate for Gnar. By locking into the same team as Gnar, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 49.3%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Gnar and Rumble that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Gnar. That means you should be very careful when arranging Rumble allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Gnar and Rumble together, you probably will not be providing your side much support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Rumble ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Gnar to synergize with Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Gnar and Rumble synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Trinity Force. When Gnar included at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Rumble than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Gnar boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing alongside Rumble with this build.
To have the best chance 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 sets players chose for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Rumble with Gnar are given for every ranked division. If you would like to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.