Katarina with Bard
How to Synergize Katarina and Bard
based on 3,912 Katarina with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Bard Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Bard
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Bard
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Katarina perform poorer in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Bard, she observes a little increase in her total damage dealt. This change could signal that Bard provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played alongside 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 synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Bard on the same team, 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 Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Bard
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Katarina that will always be her best teammate. However, Bard is a pretty good ally for Katarina. By being on the same team as Katarina, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 51.5%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Katarina and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Katarina. That means you should be very careful when finding Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Katarina and Bard together, you may not be providing your other allies enough utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Katarina to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to include in your Katarina and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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