Aatrox with Bard
How to Synergize Aatrox and Bard
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Aatrox Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aatrox and Bard
Tips for Playing as Aatrox with Bard
Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Aatrox Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Aatrox in LoL
The Aatrox Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Aatrox sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Aatrox perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Aatrox is an ally to Bard, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Aatrox is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Aatrox plays with Bard on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Aatrox in team fights.
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Is Aatrox better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Aatrox that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a superb companion for Aatrox. By playing on the same team as Aatrox, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 53.6%. This proves that there is a very strong strategic relationship between Aatrox and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Aatrox. That means you need to be very careful when lining up Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Aatrox players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Aatrox and Bard together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Aatrox and Bard synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Sundered Sky. When Aatrox incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Aatrox boasted an average winrate of 53.6% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Aatrox players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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