Wukong with Bard
How to Synergize Wukong and Bard
based on 1,146 Wukong with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Wukong Bard Synergy Summary
Best Wukong vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Wukong and Bard
Tips for Playing as Wukong with Bard
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
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.
Wukong Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Wukong in LoL
The Wukong 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, Wukong 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 fall shows that Bard helps Wukong perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Wukong plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Bard helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Wukong is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Wukong plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Wukong during team fights.
Synergies between Wukong and Bard
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Is Wukong better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Wukong that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a pretty good ally for Wukong. By being on the same team as Wukong, he raises their win rate by 2.4% to 51.8%. This shows that there is a good synergy between Wukong and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Wukong. That means you need to be careful when arranging Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Wukong and Bard together, you may not be giving your team a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Wukong to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Wukong and Bard synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Wukong incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Wukong boasted an average winrate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Wukong and Bard pairings, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.8% win rate overall.
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