Bard with Akali
How to Synergize Bard and Akali
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Bard Akali Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Akali
Tips for Playing as Bard with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Bard Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Bard in LoL
The Bard Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Akali, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Akali provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Akali on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Akali.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Akali on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Akali is a not very good ally for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 50.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Bard and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Akali comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by bringing Bard and Akali together, you will not be giving your other allies much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Akali teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to synergize with Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard and Akali synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.5% when playing alongside Akali with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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