Bard with Vi
How to Synergize Bard and Vi
based on 2,929 Bard with Vi pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Vi Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Vi Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Vi
Tips for Playing as Bard with Vi
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 Vi Will Play
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
Bard Vi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vi as Bard in LoL
The Bard Vi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vi, 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 Vi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Vi helps Bard perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Vi, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Vi supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Vi on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vi.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Vi on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Vi does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Vi
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Is Bard better when played alongside Vi?
There is no one best ally for Bard that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Vi is a decent ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, she raises their win rate by 1.8% to 54.1%. This signals that there is a good bond between Bard and Vi that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Vi has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Vi allies to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Bard players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Vi together, you may not be granting your other allies much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Vi ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to work well with Vi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Bard and Vi synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Vi than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 54.1% helping carry Vi with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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