Bard with Lulu
How to Synergize Bard and Lulu
based on 54 Bard with Lulu pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Lulu Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Lulu Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Lulu
Tips for Playing as Bard with Lulu
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 Lulu Will Play
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
Bard Lulu Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lulu as Bard in LoL
The Bard Lulu synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lulu, 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 Lulu. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Lulu helps Bard perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Lulu, he observes a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Lulu does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Lulu on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lulu.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Lulu on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Lulu does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Lulu?
There is no ideal ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Lulu is a very bad ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -13.4% to 38.9%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Bard and Lulu that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Lulu has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Lulu teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Bard and Lulu together, you will not be granting your other teammates enough sustained damage output. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Lulu ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 truly master Bard in order to pair well with Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to use in your Bard and Lulu synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Lulu than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 38.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Lulu with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Bard and Lulu pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 38.9% winrate overall.
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