Kalista with Gnar
How to Synergize Kalista and Gnar
based on 337 Kalista with Gnar pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kalista Gnar Synergy Summary
Best Kalista vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Gnar
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Gnar helps Kalista perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is an ally to Gnar, she sees a small increase in her complete damage output. This difference could signal that Gnar provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played alongside Gnar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Gnar.
Moreover, when Kalista plays with Gnar on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Gnar does a poor job of covering Kalista during team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Gnar
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Kalista that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Gnar is a relatively poor ally for Kalista. By locking into the same team as Kalista, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 45.7%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Kalista and Gnar that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gnar has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players must be very careful when lining up Gnar allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Kalista players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Kalista and Gnar together, you will not be giving your team very much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kalista in order to work well with Gnar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Kalista and Gnar synergy build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Gnar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kalista had an average winrate of 45.7% helping carry Gnar with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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