Nami with Bard
How to Synergize Nami and Bard
based on 34 Nami with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nami Bard Synergy Summary
Best Nami vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nami and Bard
Tips for Playing as Nami with Bard
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
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.
Nami Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Nami in LoL
The Nami 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, Nami sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Nami perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nami is paired with Bard, she sees a little drop in her full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Bard does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nami is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Nami plays with Bard on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Nami during team fights.
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Is Nami better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nami that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Bard is a very bad teammate for Nami. By being on the same team as Nami, he drops their win rate by -16.7% to 32.4%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Nami and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Nami. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Nami and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of cover. Make sure to have other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nami to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nami and Bard synergy build include Ardent Censer, Imperial Mandate, and Dawncore. When Nami incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 32.4% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 32.4% winrate overall.
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