Bard with Kassadin
How to Synergize Bard and Kassadin
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Bard Kassadin Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Bard with Kassadin
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 Kassadin Will Play
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
Bard Kassadin Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kassadin as Bard in LoL
The Bard Kassadin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kassadin, 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 Kassadin. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kassadin helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Kassadin, he gets a little drop in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Kassadin does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Kassadin on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Kassadin. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Kassadin.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Kassadin on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may mean that Kassadin does a decent job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Kassadin?
There is no perfect companion for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, Kassadin is a not very good ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 50.8%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Bard and Kassadin that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kassadin has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Kassadin comrades to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Kassadin together, you probably will not be granting your team a great deal of attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kassadin ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to synergize with Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Bard and Kassadin synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Kassadin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kassadin with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating your oponents, you 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 rune combinations players picked for Bard and Kassadin pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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