Lee Sin with Bard
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Bard
based on 3,525 Lee Sin with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lee Sin Bard Synergy Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Bard
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Bard
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a large worsening in his 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 Lee Sin perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Lee Sin is an ally to Bard, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could indicate that Bard provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Bard on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Lee Sin during teamfights.
Synergies between Lee Sin and Bard
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lee Sin that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, Bard is a good ally for Lee Sin. By being on the same side as Lee Sin, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 49.9%. This signals that there is pretty good bond between Lee Sin and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means Lee Sin players need to be very careful when finding Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing alongside, Lee Sin players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Lee Sin and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lee Sin to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Lee Sin and Bard synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Lee Sin included at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 49.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Lee Sin are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.