Bard with Samira
How to Synergize Bard and Samira
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Bard Samira Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Samira
Tips for Playing as Bard with Samira
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.
Bard Samira Synergy Stats
How to Play with Samira as Bard in LoL
The Bard Samira synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Samira, 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 Samira. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Samira helps Bard perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Samira, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Samira supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Samira 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 with Samira.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Samira on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Samira does a decent job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Samira?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his top synergy. However, Samira is a terrible ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -3.2% to 49.1%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Bard and Samira that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Samira has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when finding Samira teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Samira together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Samira ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to synergize with Samira during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to get in your Bard and Samira synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Samira than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 49.1% helping carry Samira with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.1% win rate overall.
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