Taric with Bard
How to Synergize Taric and Bard
based on 101 Taric with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Taric Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Taric and Bard
Tips for Playing as Taric with Bard
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Taric in LoL
The Taric 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, Taric sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Taric perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Taric plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a very large increase in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Taric is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Taric plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Taric during teamfights.
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Is Taric better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Taric that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Bard is a below average ally for Taric. By locking into the same side as Taric, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 50.5%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful bond between Taric and Bard that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Taric. That means Taric players should be cautious when enlisting Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by grouping Taric and Bard together, you may not be giving your side much attack damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Taric to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to get in your Taric and Bard synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 50.5% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Second Wind, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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