Bard with Vladimir
How to Synergize Bard and Vladimir
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Bard Vladimir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Bard with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Bard Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Bard in LoL
The Bard Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Vladimir helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Vladimir, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Vladimir. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Vladimir on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no ideal companion for Bard that will always be his best teammate. However, Vladimir is a very typical ally for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he raises their win rate by 0.7% to 53.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Bard and Vladimir that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Vladimir has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Vladimir allies to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, Bard players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Vladimir together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to synergize with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Vladimir synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Vladimir than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Vladimir with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating 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 combinations players used for Bard and Vladimir pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 53.0% winrate overall.
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