Bard with Lucian
How to Synergize Bard and Lucian
based on 5,698 Bard with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Bard with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Bard Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Bard in LoL
The Bard Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lucian helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with Lucian, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Lucian provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Lucian 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 Lucian.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Lucian on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Lucian does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will always be his #1 synergy. Yet, Lucian is a very bad teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 49.1%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Bard and Lucian that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lucian has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when finding Lucian teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Bard players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Lucian together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a lot of AP. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 pair well with Lucian during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Bard and Lucian synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Lucian than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lucian with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, Bard players 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 runes we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
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