Bard with Viktor
How to Synergize Bard and Viktor
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Bard Viktor Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Viktor
Tips for Playing as Bard with Viktor
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 Viktor Will Play
Make sure you choose the right augment at the right time.
Death Ray is a powerful poke and a strong area of denial tool. Use it in combination with Gravity Field to control your enemy's position.
Bard Viktor Synergy Stats
How to Play with Viktor as Bard in LoL
The Bard Viktor synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Viktor, 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 Viktor. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Viktor helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Viktor, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Viktor doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Viktor on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Viktor.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Viktor on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Viktor does a decent job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Viktor?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Viktor is a very typical teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 51.3%. This shows that there is a weak bond between Bard and Viktor that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Viktor has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Viktor comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Bard and Viktor together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Viktor ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to work well with Viktor during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to have in your Bard and Viktor synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Viktor than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Viktor with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability 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 chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
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