Leona with Bard
How to Synergize Leona and Bard
based on 56 Leona with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Bard
Tips for Playing as Leona with Bard
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona 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 worsening shows that Bard helps Leona perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is an ally to Bard, she observes a very large increase in her full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Bard provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Leona 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 synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Leona plays with Bard on the same side, she often takes much more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Leona during team fights.
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Is Leona better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Leona that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Bard is a terrible companion for Leona. By locking into the same team as Leona, he lowers their win rate by -16.5% to 35.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Leona and Bard that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you need to be careful when arranging Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide a lot of utility for your team. Combined, these champions will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by bringing Leona and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
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 do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Leona and Bard synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Bloodsong. When Leona combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 35.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Legend: Tenacity, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 35.7% winrate overall.
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