Fiddlesticks with Bard
How to Synergize Fiddlesticks and Bard
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Fiddlesticks Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Fiddlesticks and Bard
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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.
Fiddlesticks Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Fiddlesticks in LoL
The Fiddlesticks 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, Fiddlesticks sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Fiddlesticks perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Fiddlesticks is paired with Bard, he observes a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Bard supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Fiddlesticks is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Fiddlesticks plays with Bard on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Fiddlesticks during team fights.
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Is Fiddlesticks better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best companion for Fiddlesticks that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a decent companion for Fiddlesticks. By locking into the same side as Fiddlesticks, he raises their win rate by 1.1% to 50.1%. This shows that there is a good bond between Fiddlesticks and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a lower difficulty than Fiddlesticks. That means Fiddlesticks players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Fiddlesticks and Bard together, you may not be granting your team very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Fiddlesticks to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Fiddlesticks and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 50.1% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.1% win rate overall.
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