Annie with Bard
How to Synergize Annie and Bard
based on 1,550 Annie with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Annie Bard Synergy Summary
Best Annie vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Annie and Bard
Tips for Playing as Annie with Bard
Molten Shield is a good spell to cast to work up to Annie's stun, so sometimes it's beneficial to grab at least 1 rank in it early.
Striking killing blows on minions with Disintegrate enables Annie to farm extremely well early in the game.
Storing a stun for use with her ultimate can turn the tide of a team fight.
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.
Annie Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Annie in LoL
The Annie Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Annie sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Annie perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Annie is an ally to Bard, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Bard provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Annie is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Annie plays with Bard on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Annie in teamfights.
Synergies between Annie and Bard
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Is Annie better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Annie that will 100% of the time be her best synergy. However, overall, Bard is a very typical teammate for Annie. By being on the same side as Annie, he increases their win rate by 0.4% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a weak bond between Annie and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Annie. That means Annie players should be cautious when enlisting Bard teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Annie and Bard together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Annie to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Annie and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Malignance, and Stormsurge. When Annie used at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Annie had an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Annie are given for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.