Bard with Master Yi
How to Synergize Bard and Master Yi
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Bard Master Yi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Master Yi
Tips for Playing as Bard with Master Yi
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 Master Yi Will Play
If you're in a lane against ranged players, leveling up Meditate can allow you to stay in the lane longer and gain levels faster than they will.
Try using Alpha Strike on a minion in front of an enemy champion so you are placed at a safe distance at the end of the spell.
Wuju Style is very strong early for last hitting minions.
Bard Master Yi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Master Yi as Bard in LoL
The Bard Master Yi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Master Yi, 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 Master Yi. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Master Yi helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Master Yi, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Master Yi does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Master Yi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Master Yi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Master Yi.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Master Yi on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Master Yi does a decent job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Master Yi?
There is no top companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Master Yi is a pretty good teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 53.6%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Bard and Master Yi that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Master Yi has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Master Yi comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Bard players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Bard and Master Yi together, you probably will not be granting your team much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Master Yi teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Master Yi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Bard and Master Yi synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Master Yi than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.6% when playing alongside Master Yi with this build.
To have the best chance of beating 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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