Corki with Bard
How to Synergize Corki and Bard
based on 1,434 Corki with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Corki Bard Synergy Summary
Best Corki vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Corki and Bard
Tips for Playing as Corki with Bard
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
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.
Corki Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Corki in LoL
The Corki Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Corki sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Corki perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Corki is an ally to Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Bard helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Corki is played with Bard 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 synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Corki plays with Bard on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Corki in team fights.
Synergies between Corki and Bard
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Is Corki better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best ally for Corki that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Bard is a great ally for Corki. By playing on the same team as Corki, he improves their win rate by 3.1% to 51.2%. This shows that there is an important bond between Corki and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Corki. That means you must be cautious when arranging Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing alongside, Corki players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Corki and Bard together, you may not be providing your team much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Corki in order to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Corki and Bard synergy build include Muramana, Trinity Force, and Eclipse. When Corki used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Corki had an average winrate of 51.2% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Corki players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Corki and Bard pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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