Bard with Graves
How to Synergize Bard and Graves
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Bard Graves Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Graves
Tips for Playing as Bard with Graves
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 Graves Will Play
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
Bard Graves Synergy Stats
How to Play with Graves as Bard in LoL
The Bard Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Graves helps Bard perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Graves, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Graves doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Graves on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Graves. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Graves on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Graves does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Graves?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, Graves is a very typical teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he improves their win rate by 0.1% to 52.4%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Bard and Graves that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when finding Graves allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Bard players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by aligning Bard and Graves together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Graves ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 to work well with Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to focus on in your Bard and Graves synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Frozen Heart. When Bard combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.4% when playing alongside Graves with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Bard and Graves pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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