Bard with Skarner
How to Synergize Bard and Skarner
based on 395 Bard with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Skarner Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Bard with Skarner
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 Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Bard Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Bard in LoL
The Bard Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Skarner helps Bard perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Skarner, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Skarner supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Skarner 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 Skarner.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Skarner on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Skarner does a decent job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Skarner is a terrible companion for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he drops their win rate by -4.2% to 48.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Bard and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Skarner has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Skarner teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Skarner together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Skarner ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to work well with Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Bard and Skarner synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Skarner than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 48.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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