Bard with Xayah
How to Synergize Bard and Xayah
based on 1,343 Bard with Xayah pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Xayah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Xayah
Tips for Playing as Bard with Xayah
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 Xayah Will Play
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
Bard Xayah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xayah as Bard in LoL
The Bard Xayah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xayah, 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 Xayah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Xayah helps Bard perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Xayah, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Xayah does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Xayah 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 alongside Xayah.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Xayah on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Xayah does a poor job of covering Bard during teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Xayah
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Is Bard better when played alongside Xayah?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Xayah is a not very good companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -2.4% to 49.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Bard and Xayah that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xayah has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Xayah comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing alongside, Bard players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Bard and Xayah together, you may not be giving your side enough magical damage output. We recommend you have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xayah teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Bard in order to synergize with Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard and Xayah synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Xayah than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 49.9% when playing alongside Xayah with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
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