Bard with Poppy
How to Synergize Bard and Poppy
based on 1,697 Bard with Poppy pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Poppy Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Poppy
Tips for Playing as Bard with Poppy
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 Poppy Will Play
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Bard Poppy Synergy Stats
How to Play with Poppy as Bard in LoL
The Bard Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Poppy helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Poppy, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Poppy supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Poppy 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 alongside Poppy.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Poppy on the same team, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Poppy?
There is no top champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, Poppy is a very typical ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she drops their win rate by -0.7% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small synergy between Bard and Poppy that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Poppy has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Poppy allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. Combined, these champions should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Poppy together, you may not be providing your side a lot of magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to work well with Poppy during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Bard and Poppy synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Poppy than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Poppy with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing your oponents, Bard players should take 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 picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.6% win rate overall.
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