Illaoi with Bard
How to Synergize Illaoi and Bard
based on 1,726 Illaoi with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Illaoi Bard Synergy Summary
Best Illaoi vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Bard
Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Bard
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Illaoi in LoL
The Illaoi Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Illaoi sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Illaoi perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Illaoi tries to synergize with Bard, she gets a small increase in her full damage dealt. This could indicate that Bard helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Bard on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Illaoi in teamfights.
Synergies between Illaoi and Bard
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Is Illaoi better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her top synergy. However, Bard is a good companion for Illaoi. By locking into the same team as Illaoi, he raises their win rate by 1.3% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Illaoi and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Bard comrades to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, Illaoi players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Illaoi and Bard together, you may not be providing your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down 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 Illaoi in order to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to include in your Illaoi and Bard synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spirit Visage, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when playing alongside Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Illaoi and Bard pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Bard with Illaoi are displayed for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.