Bard with Vayne
How to Synergize Bard and Vayne
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Bard Vayne Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Vayne
Tips for Playing as Bard with Vayne
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 Vayne Will Play
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
Bard Vayne Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vayne as Bard in LoL
The Bard Vayne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vayne, 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 Vayne. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Vayne helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Vayne, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Vayne doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Vayne 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 synergisticly with Vayne.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Vayne on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Vayne does a decent job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Vayne?
There is no top ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Vayne is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she increases their win rate by 0.4% to 52.7%. This proves that there is a weak bond between Bard and Vayne that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Vayne has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Vayne allies to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Bard players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Vayne together, you may not be giving your team much tankyness. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of your Vayne ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, 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 in order to pair well with Vayne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Bard and Vayne synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Vayne than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Vayne with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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