Bard with Akshan
How to Synergize Bard and Akshan
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Bard Akshan Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Akshan
Tips for Playing as Bard with Akshan
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 Akshan Will Play
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Bard Akshan Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akshan as Bard in LoL
The Bard Akshan synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akshan, 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 Akshan. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Akshan helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Akshan, he sees a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Akshan does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Akshan on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Akshan.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Akshan on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Akshan does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Akshan?
There is no top synergy for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Akshan is a pretty good teammate for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, they improves their win rate by 1.0% to 53.3%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Bard and Akshan that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Akshan has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Akshan teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Bard players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Akshan together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Akshan ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to pair well with Akshan during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Bard and Akshan synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Akshan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akshan with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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 combinations players chose for Bard and Akshan pairings, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Akshan with Bard are presented for all ranked divisions. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.