Bard with Braum
How to Synergize Bard and Braum
based on 20 Bard with Braum pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Braum Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Braum Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Braum
Tips for Playing as Bard with Braum
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 Braum Will Play
Glacial Fissure leaves a powerful slow zone, position it well to split teamfights and slow the enemy approach.
Leap in front of squishy friends and shield them from projectiles with Unbreakable.
Work with your allies to stack Concussive Blows, encourage them to basic attack marked targets.
Bard Braum Synergy Stats
How to Play with Braum as Bard in LoL
The Bard Braum synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Braum, 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 Braum. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Braum helps Bard perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Braum, he gets a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Braum doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Braum on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Braum.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Braum on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Braum does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
Synergies between Bard and Braum
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Is Bard better when played alongside Braum?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 ally. However, Braum is a terrible companion for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -12.3% to 40.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Bard and Braum that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Braum has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Braum comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing on the same side, Bard players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these two will be a great protective duo.
Although, by bringing Bard and Braum together, you probably will not be giving your team much AD. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Braum ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To truly master Bard to work well with Braum during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Bard and Braum synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Braum than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 40.0% when playing alongside Braum with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Bard and Braum pairings, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 40.0% win rate overall.
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