Bard with Nidalee
How to Synergize Bard and Nidalee
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Bard Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nidalee
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 Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Bard Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Bard in LoL
The Bard Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, 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 Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Nidalee, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could indicate that Nidalee doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Nidalee on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -8.4% to 43.9%. This signals that there is a terrible synergy between Bard and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nidalee teammates to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Bard players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Nidalee together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to have in your Bard and Nidalee synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 43.9% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.9% win rate overall.
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