Ornn with Bard
How to Synergize Ornn and Bard
based on 2,408 Ornn with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ornn Bard Synergy Summary
Best Ornn vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Ornn and Bard
Tips for Playing as Ornn with Bard
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
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.
Ornn Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Ornn in LoL
The Ornn 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, Ornn sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Ornn perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ornn tries to synergize with Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Ornn is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Ornn plays with Bard on the same team, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Ornn in teamfights.
Synergies between Ornn and Bard
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Is Ornn better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ornn that will no matter what be his ideal ally. Yet, Bard is a decent teammate for Ornn. By being on the same team as Ornn, he improves their win rate by 1.7% to 52.0%. This signals that there is a good strategic relationship between Ornn and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Ornn. That means Ornn players need to be careful when arranging Bard allies to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by pairing Ornn and Bard together, you will not be giving your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ornn in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to build first in your Ornn and Bard synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and The Unspoken Parasite. When Ornn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ornn had an average win rate of 52.0% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Ornn players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Ornn and Bard pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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