Bard with Yorick
How to Synergize Bard and Yorick
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Bard Yorick Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Yorick
Tips for Playing as Bard with Yorick
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 Yorick Will Play
You do not need to cast Awakening to regain the ability to cast Last Rites.
You can send the Maiden down a lane alone, be careful though, as she represents a large portion of your combat power.
The Maiden will attempt to assist you in a fight, so choose your targets well.
Bard Yorick Synergy Stats
How to Play with Yorick as Bard in LoL
The Bard Yorick synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Yorick, 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 Yorick. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Yorick helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Yorick, he sees a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Yorick does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Yorick on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Yorick. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Yorick.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Yorick on the same side, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Yorick does a decent job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Yorick?
There is no one best synergy for Bard that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Yorick is a not very good teammate for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -1.7% to 50.6%. This proves that there is a bad strategic relationship between Bard and Yorick that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Yorick has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Yorick teammates to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Yorick together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Yorick ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to synergize with Yorick during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to use in your Bard and Yorick synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Yorick than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Yorick with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take 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 team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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