Thresh with Bard
How to Synergize Thresh and Bard
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Thresh Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Thresh and Bard
Tips for Playing as Thresh with Bard
Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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.
Thresh Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Thresh in LoL
The Thresh 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, Thresh 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 decrease shows that Bard helps Thresh perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Thresh is paired with Bard, he sees a great improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Thresh is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Thresh plays with Bard on the same team, he often takes significantly more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Thresh during teamfights.
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Is Thresh better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Thresh that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a relatively poor ally for Thresh. By being on the same team as Thresh, he decreases their win rate by -2.2% to 46.3%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Thresh and Bard that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Thresh. That means Thresh players should be careful when arranging Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing alongside, Thresh players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by grouping Thresh and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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
To truly master Thresh to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Thresh and Bard synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Thresh combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Thresh boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Thresh players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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