Bard with Taliyah
How to Synergize Bard and Taliyah
based on 1,324 Bard with Taliyah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Taliyah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Bard with Taliyah
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 Taliyah Will Play
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
Bard Taliyah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taliyah as Bard in LoL
The Bard Taliyah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taliyah, 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 Taliyah. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Taliyah helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with Taliyah, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Taliyah doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Taliyah 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 Taliyah.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Taliyah on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Taliyah does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Taliyah?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Taliyah is a below average ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -2.5% to 49.8%. This demonstrates that there is a negative synergy between Bard and Taliyah that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Taliyah has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Taliyah allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Taliyah together, you will not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Taliyah ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to pair well with Taliyah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to have in your Bard and Taliyah synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Taliyah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.8% when playing alongside Taliyah with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Bard and Taliyah pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.8% winrate overall.
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