Taliyah with Bard
How to Synergize Taliyah and Bard
based on 1,324 Taliyah with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taliyah Bard Synergy Summary
Best Taliyah vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Taliyah and Bard
Tips for Playing as Taliyah with Bard
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Taliyah in LoL
The Taliyah 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, Taliyah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Taliyah perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taliyah tries to synergize with Bard, she observes a marginal improvement in her full damage output. This could demonstrate that Bard provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Taliyah is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Taliyah plays with Bard on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Taliyah in teamfights.
Synergies between Taliyah and Bard
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Is Taliyah better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Taliyah that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Bard is a pretty good ally for Taliyah. By locking into the same side as Taliyah, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 49.8%. This proves that there is a good strategic relationship between Taliyah and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Taliyah. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Taliyah and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your team much sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Taliyah to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Taliyah and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Taliyah had an average win rate of 49.8% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Taliyah players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Taliyah and Bard pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Taliyah are displayed for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.