Rumble with Bard
How to Synergize Rumble and Bard
based on 2,036 Rumble with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Rumble Bard Synergy Summary
Best Rumble vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rumble and Bard
Tips for Playing as Rumble with Bard
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
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.
Rumble Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Rumble in LoL
The Rumble 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, Rumble sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Rumble perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rumble is an ally to Bard, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This change could signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Rumble is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Rumble plays with Bard on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Rumble in teamfights.
Synergies between Rumble and Bard
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Is Rumble better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top champion pairing for Rumble that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Bard is a decent ally for Rumble. By locking into the same side as Rumble, he raises their win rate by 1.6% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a good bond between Rumble and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a lower difficulty than Rumble. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Rumble players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Rumble and Bard together, you will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Rumble Bard Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rumble in order to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Rumble and Bard synergy build include Riftmaker, Stormsurge, and Liandry's Torment. When Rumble used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Rumble had an average winrate of 50.9% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Rumble players should take the Arcane Comet, Nimbus Cloak, Absolute Focus, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Bard with Rumble are presented for all skill levels combined. To filter the stats and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.