Bard with Zed
How to Synergize Bard and Zed
based on 3,815 Bard with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Zed Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Zed
Tips for Playing as Bard with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Bard Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Bard in LoL
The Bard Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zed helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with Zed, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Zed provides cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Zed on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Zed does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Zed?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Zed is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 50.4%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Bard and Zed that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Bard and Zed together, you may not be granting your team a lot of magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Zed synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 50.4% when playing alongside Zed with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you 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 sets we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Zed with Bard are displayed for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.