Sivir with Bard
How to Synergize Sivir and Bard
based on 1,794 Sivir with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Sivir Bard Synergy Summary
Best Sivir vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sivir and Bard
Tips for Playing as Sivir with Bard
Sivir's Boomerang Blade returns to her after reaching the max range, so you can shift position to hit enemies who would otherwise have evaded it.
Try saving Spell Shield for enemy abilities that can disable you such as stuns and roots.
Ricochet resets Sivir's basic attack timer on activation, so activating this immediately after landing a normal basic attack will maximize damage output.
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.
Sivir Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Sivir in LoL
The Sivir 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, Sivir sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Sivir perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sivir is an ally to Bard, she observes a small increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Bard helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Sivir is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Sivir plays with Bard on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Sivir in team fights.
Synergies between Sivir and Bard
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Is Sivir better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best champion pairing for Sivir that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Bard is a decent teammate for Sivir. By playing on the same team as Sivir, he increases their win rate by 2.3% to 50.2%. This clearly indicates that there is pretty good synergy between Sivir and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Sivir. That means Sivir players should be careful when finding Bard teammates 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 do well with you.
When playing together, Sivir players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Sivir and Bard together, you may not be granting your other teammates enough AP. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Sivir to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Sivir and Bard synergy build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Sivir used at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sivir boasted an average win rate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Bard with Sivir are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.