Bard with Irelia
How to Synergize Bard and Irelia
based on 2,868 Bard with Irelia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Irelia Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Irelia
Tips for Playing as Bard with Irelia
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 Irelia Will Play
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
Bard Irelia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Irelia as Bard in LoL
The Bard Irelia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Irelia, 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 Irelia. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Irelia helps Bard perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Irelia, he gets a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Irelia doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Irelia on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Irelia.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Irelia on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Irelia does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Irelia
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Is Bard better when played alongside Irelia?
There is no one best ally for Bard that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Irelia is a decent companion for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she increases their win rate by 1.8% to 54.1%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good bond between Bard and Irelia that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Irelia has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Irelia comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, Bard players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Irelia together, you probably will not be providing your team enough tankyness. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Irelia ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Irelia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to include in your Bard and Irelia synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Irelia than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Irelia with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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