Bard with Thresh
How to Synergize Bard and Thresh
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Bard Thresh Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Thresh
Tips for Playing as Bard with Thresh
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 Thresh Will Play
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
Bard Thresh Synergy Stats
How to Play with Thresh as Bard in LoL
The Bard Thresh synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Thresh, 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 Thresh. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Thresh helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with Thresh, he sees a great improvement in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Thresh helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Thresh on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Thresh. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Thresh.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Thresh on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Thresh does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Thresh?
There is no one best synergy for Bard that will always be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Thresh is a very bad companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -6.0% to 46.3%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Bard and Thresh that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Thresh has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when finding Thresh allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Thresh together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates very much AD. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Thresh ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 Thresh during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Bard and Thresh synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Thresh than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Thresh with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.3% winrate overall.
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