Hecarim with Bard
How to Synergize Hecarim and Bard
based on 2,819 Hecarim with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Bard Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Bard
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Bard
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Hecarim perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Hecarim tries to synergize with Bard, he observes a little increase in his total damage output. This could signal that Bard provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Bard on the same team, 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.
Moreover, when Hecarim plays with Bard on the same team, he usually receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Bard does a decent job of covering Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Bard
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Hecarim that will always be his best ally. However, overall, Bard is a good companion for Hecarim. By locking into the same team as Hecarim, he improves their win rate by 1.3% to 49.8%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Hecarim and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means Hecarim players must be careful when arranging Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Hecarim and Bard together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to have other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Hecarim and Bard synergy build include Spear of Shojin, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim boasted an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Hecarim and Bard pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.8% win rate overall.
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