Bard with Neeko
How to Synergize Bard and Neeko
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Bard Neeko Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Neeko
Tips for Playing as Bard with Neeko
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 Neeko Will Play
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
Bard Neeko Synergy Stats
How to Play with Neeko as Bard in LoL
The Bard Neeko synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Neeko, 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 Neeko. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Neeko helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Neeko, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Neeko helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Neeko on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Neeko.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Neeko on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Neeko does a poor job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Neeko?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Neeko is a very typical teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Bard and Neeko that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Neeko has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Neeko comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Bard players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Neeko together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Neeko ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to synergize with Neeko during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Bard and Neeko synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Neeko than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Neeko with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.3% winrate overall.
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