Bard with Volibear
How to Synergize Bard and Volibear
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Bard Volibear Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Volibear
Tips for Playing as Bard with Volibear
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.
Bard Volibear Synergy Stats
How to Play with Volibear as Bard in LoL
The Bard Volibear synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Volibear, 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 Volibear. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Volibear helps Bard perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Volibear, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Volibear doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Volibear on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Volibear. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Volibear.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Volibear on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Volibear does a decent job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Volibear?
There is no top companion for Bard that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, overall, Volibear is a below average teammate for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 49.5%. This shows that there is a bad strategic relationship between Bard and Volibear that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Volibear has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Volibear teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Volibear together, you will not be giving your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of your Volibear ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to synergize with Volibear during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Bard and Volibear synergy build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Volibear than with most other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 49.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Volibear with this build.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Bard players 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.5% win rate overall.
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