Bard with Gragas
How to Synergize Bard and Gragas
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Bard Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Bard with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Bard Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Bard in LoL
The Bard Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Gragas helps Bard perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Gragas, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Gragas doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Gragas on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gragas. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Gragas.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Gragas on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Gragas does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Gragas is a relatively poor companion for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -2.3% to 50.0%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Bard and Gragas that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting together, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Gragas together, you may not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard in order to work well with Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Bard and Gragas synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating 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 runes players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
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