Bard with Sylas
How to Synergize Bard and Sylas
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Bard Sylas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Sylas
Tips for Playing as Bard with Sylas
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 Sylas Will Play
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Bard Sylas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Sylas as Bard in LoL
The Bard Sylas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sylas, 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 Sylas. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Sylas helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Sylas, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Sylas does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Sylas on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Sylas.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Sylas on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Sylas does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Sylas?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Sylas is a good teammate for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he improves their win rate by 1.1% to 53.4%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Bard and Sylas that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Sylas has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Sylas teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing alongside, Bard players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Bard and Sylas together, you probably will not be giving your team much attack damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Sylas teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Sylas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Bard and Sylas synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Sylas than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Sylas with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating 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. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.4% winrate overall.
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