Bard with Annie
How to Synergize Bard and Annie
based on 1,550 Bard with Annie pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Annie Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Annie
Tips for Playing as Bard with Annie
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 Annie Will Play
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.
Bard Annie Synergy Stats
How to Play with Annie as Bard in LoL
The Bard Annie synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Annie, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Annie. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Annie helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Annie, he gets a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Annie does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Annie 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 with Annie.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Annie on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Annie does a decent job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Annie?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Annie is a relatively poor companion for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -2.6% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Bard and Annie that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Annie has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when arranging Annie comrades 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 witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Annie together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Annie 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 will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Annie during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Bard and Annie synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Annie than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 49.7% when playing alongside Annie with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.7% winrate overall.
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