Bard with Rek'Sai
How to Synergize Bard and Rek'Sai
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Bard Rek'Sai Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Rek'Sai
Tips for Playing as Bard with Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai Will Play
Keeping tunnels spread out across the map will ensure you have choices when you want to cast Void Rush.
Cast Burrow before travelling around the map to take advantage of the increased Move Speed and the safety provided by Tremor Sense.
Tremor Sense can warn you of enemies closing in, and is particularly useful when entering enemy territory.
Bard Rek'Sai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Rek'Sai as Bard in LoL
The Bard Rek'Sai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rek'Sai, 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 Rek'Sai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rek'Sai helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Rek'Sai, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Rek'Sai provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Rek'Sai 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 with Rek'Sai.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Rek'Sai on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Rek'Sai does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Rek'Sai
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Is Bard better when played alongside Rek'Sai?
There is no top synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Rek'Sai is a very typical companion for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 52.7%. This signals that there is not really a strong synergy between Bard and Rek'Sai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Rek'Sai has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Rek'Sai comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Rek'Sai together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of your Rek'Sai ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to work well with Rek'Sai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Rek'Sai synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Rek'Sai than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.7% when playing alongside Rek'Sai with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.7% win rate overall.
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