Alistar with Bard
How to Synergize Alistar and Bard
based on 106 Alistar with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Bard Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Bard
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Bard
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar 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, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Alistar perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Bard, he gets a great improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played alongside Bard 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 Bard.
Additionally, when Alistar plays with Bard on the same side, he often receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Alistar during teamfights.
Synergies between Alistar and Bard
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top champion pairing for Alistar that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Bard is a pretty good companion for Alistar. By playing on the same side as Alistar, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 51.9%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Alistar and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means Alistar players should be cautious when arranging Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to support your allies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by bringing Alistar and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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How We Calculated Our Alistar Bard Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Alistar to synergize with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to focus on in your Alistar and Bard synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Frozen Heart. When Alistar included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 51.9% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.9% win rate overall.
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