Bard with Tristana
How to Synergize Bard and Tristana
based on 2,984 Bard with Tristana pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Tristana Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Tristana
Tips for Playing as Bard with Tristana
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 Tristana Will Play
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
Bard Tristana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Tristana as Bard in LoL
The Bard Tristana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Tristana, 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 Tristana. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Tristana helps Bard perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is an ally to Tristana, he sees a little drop in his total damage output. This could indicate that Tristana does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Tristana 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 Tristana.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Tristana on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Tristana does a decent job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Tristana?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Tristana is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 51.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Bard and Tristana that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Tristana has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when lining up Tristana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Tristana together, you probably will not be giving your side enough support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Tristana ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard in order to synergize with Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard and Tristana synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Tristana than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.5% helping carry Tristana with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should equip 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 that we analyzed for Bard and Tristana pairings, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Tristana with Bard are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.