Shaco with Gnar
How to Synergize Shaco and Gnar
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Shaco Gnar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Gnar
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Gnar
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Gnar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gnar as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Gnar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gnar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Gnar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gnar helps Shaco perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is paired with Gnar, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could signal that Gnar helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Gnar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Gnar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gnar.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Gnar on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Gnar does a poor job of protecting Shaco in team fights.
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Gnar?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Shaco that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Gnar is a very typical teammate for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 49.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong synergy between Shaco and Gnar that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Gnar has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Gnar teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Shaco players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Gnar together, you will not be providing your other allies very much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Gnar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Shaco to work well with Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Shaco and Gnar synergy build include Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Gnar than with many other common builds. In fact, Shaco boasted an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gnar with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Shaco players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
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