Draven with Bard
How to Synergize Draven and Bard
based on 2,956 Draven with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Draven Bard Synergy Summary
Best Draven vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Draven and Bard
Tips for Playing as Draven with Bard
If Draven doesn't move, Spinning Axe will fall near his present location. It will fall directly on him, or just to the right or left.
If Draven does move after attacking, Spinning Axe will lead him in the direction of his movement. Use this to control where the Spinning Axe will go.
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.
Draven Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Draven in LoL
The Draven 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, Draven 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 Draven perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Draven is paired with Bard, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Bard doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Draven is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Draven plays with Bard on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Draven during team fights.
Synergies between Draven and Bard
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Is Draven better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Draven that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, Bard is a very typical ally for Draven. By locking into the same side as Draven, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Draven and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Draven. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Bard teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Draven players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Draven and Bard together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Draven in order to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Draven and Bard synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Hubris, and Opportunity. When Draven used at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Draven had an average winrate of 49.9% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.9% winrate overall.
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