Aphelios with Bard
How to Synergize Aphelios and Bard
based on 2,583 Aphelios with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Aphelios Bard Synergy Summary
Best Aphelios vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Bard
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Bard
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios is paired with Bard, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Bard does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Bard on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Aphelios during team fights.
Synergies between Aphelios and Bard
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Aphelios that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Bard is a decent companion for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.2%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Aphelios and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a lower difficulty than Aphelios. That means Aphelios players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to work well with you.
Playing together, Aphelios players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Aphelios and Bard together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magical damage output. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios in order to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Aphelios and Bard synergy build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other typical builds. In fact, Aphelios boasted an average win rate of 50.2% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Aphelios and Bard pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Aphelios are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.