Bard with Zac
How to Synergize Bard and Zac
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Bard Zac Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Zac
Tips for Playing as Bard with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Bard Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Bard in LoL
The Bard Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 Zac. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zac helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Zac, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zac helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Zac. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zac.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Zac on the same side, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Zac does a poor job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Zac?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Zac is a fantastic companion for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he increases their win rate by 3.3% to 55.6%. This demonstrates that there is a very strong bond between Bard and Zac that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Zac has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Zac comrades to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Zac together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 pair well with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Bard and Zac synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Zac than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 55.6% helping carry Zac with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players 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 builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Zac with Bard are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.