Gragas with Bard
How to Synergize Gragas and Bard
based on 2,038 Gragas with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gragas Bard Synergy Summary
Best Gragas vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gragas and Bard
Tips for Playing as Gragas with Bard
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Gragas in LoL
The Gragas 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, Gragas sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Gragas perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gragas is paired with Bard, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This could signal that Bard supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Gragas is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Gragas plays with Bard on the same team, 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 Gragas in team fights.
Synergies between Gragas and Bard
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Is Gragas better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Gragas that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Bard is a good ally for Gragas. By locking into the same side as Gragas, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 50.0%. This signals that there is pretty good synergy between Gragas and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Gragas. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting together, Gragas players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Gragas and Bard together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of AD. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Gragas to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Gragas and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Bard with Gragas are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.