Bard with Orianna
How to Synergize Bard and Orianna
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Bard Orianna Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Orianna
Tips for Playing as Bard with Orianna
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 Orianna Will Play
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
Bard Orianna Synergy Stats
How to Play with Orianna as Bard in LoL
The Bard Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Orianna helps Bard perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Orianna, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Orianna does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Orianna on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Orianna.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Orianna on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Orianna does a poor job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Orianna?
There is no one best companion for Bard that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Orianna is a terrible ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -5.6% to 46.7%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Bard and Orianna that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Orianna has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Orianna teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Bard and Orianna together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates very much tankyness. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Orianna teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to synergize with Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to build first in your Bard and Orianna synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Orianna than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 46.7% when playing alongside Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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 combinations players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
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