Kayle with Bard
How to Synergize Kayle and Bard
based on 3,024 Kayle with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kayle Bard Synergy Summary
Best Kayle vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kayle and Bard
Tips for Playing as Kayle with Bard
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Kayle in LoL
The Kayle 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, Kayle sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Kayle perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kayle tries to synergize with Bard, she gets a small increase in her full damage output. This change could indicate that Bard supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayle is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Kayle plays with Bard on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Kayle in team fights.
Synergies between Kayle and Bard
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Is Kayle better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Kayle that will no matter what be her best teammate. However, Bard is a pretty good teammate for Kayle. By playing on the same side as Kayle, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 53.7%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Kayle and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Kayle. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Kayle and Bard together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much utility. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayle to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Kayle and Bard synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Terminus. When Kayle bought at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Kayle boasted an average winrate of 53.7% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.7% win rate overall.
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