Bard with K'Sante
How to Synergize Bard and K'Sante
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Bard K'Sante Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and K'Sante
Tips for Playing as Bard with K'Sante
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 K'Sante Will Play
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Bard K'Sante Synergy Stats
How to Play with K'Sante as Bard in LoL
The Bard K'Sante synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with K'Sante, 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 K'Sante. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that K'Sante helps Bard perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with K'Sante, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that K'Sante helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that their presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with K'Sante on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with K'Sante.
Additionally, when Bard plays with K'Sante on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that K'Sante does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside K'Sante?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will always be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, K'Sante is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, they drops their win rate by -0.3% to 52.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Bard and K'Sante that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
K'Sante has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when arranging K'Sante allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and K'Sante together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of utility. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your K'Sante teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 work well with K'Sante during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Bard and K'Sante synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with K'Sante than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry K'Sante with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.0% win rate overall.
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