Bard with Hecarim
How to Synergize Bard and Hecarim
based on 2,819 Bard with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Hecarim Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Bard with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Bard Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Bard in LoL
The Bard Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Hecarim helps Bard perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Hecarim, he sees a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Hecarim does not provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Hecarim on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Hecarim. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Hecarim.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Hecarim on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, Hecarim is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Bard and Hecarim that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Hecarim has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Hecarim teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Bard and Hecarim together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 synergize with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Bard and Hecarim synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Hecarim than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Hecarim with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Bard and Hecarim pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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