Bard with Blitzcrank
How to Synergize Bard and Blitzcrank
based on 67 Bard with Blitzcrank pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Blitzcrank Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Blitzcrank
Tips for Playing as Bard with Blitzcrank
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 Blitzcrank Will Play
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Bard Blitzcrank Synergy Stats
How to Play with Blitzcrank as Bard in LoL
The Bard Blitzcrank synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Blitzcrank, 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 Blitzcrank. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Blitzcrank helps Bard perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Blitzcrank, he sees a great improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Blitzcrank provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Blitzcrank on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Blitzcrank.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Blitzcrank on the same side, he often receives significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Blitzcrank does a poor job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Blitzcrank?
There is no perfect ally for Bard that will no matter what be his top ally. However, overall, Blitzcrank is a terrible ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -16.5% to 35.8%. This signals that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Bard and Blitzcrank that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Blitzcrank has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Blitzcrank comrades to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Blitzcrank together, you will not be providing your side enough sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Blitzcrank ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to synergize with Blitzcrank during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Bard and Blitzcrank synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Blitzcrank than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 35.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Blitzcrank with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 35.8% winrate overall.
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