K'Sante with Bard
How to Synergize K'Sante and Bard
based on 2,000 K'Sante with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
K'Sante Bard Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Bard
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Bard
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps K'Sante perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Bard, they gets a little increase in their total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Bard helps provide cover for them to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Bard on the same side, they often receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Bard does a decent job of covering K'Sante in team fights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Bard
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect ally for K'Sante that will no matter what be their #1 ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a top-tier teammate for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, he increases their win rate by 4.8% to 52.0%. This proves that there is a strong strategic relationship between K'Sante and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be careful when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, K'Sante players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by grouping K'Sante and Bard together, you may not be granting your side a lot of crowd control. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to prioritize in your K'Sante and Bard synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante combined at least these three great items in their build, they did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 52.0% when playing alongside Bard with these items in their kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Bard with K'Sante are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.