Varus with Bard
How to Synergize Varus and Bard
based on 4,747 Varus with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Varus Bard Synergy Summary
Best Varus vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Varus and Bard
Tips for Playing as Varus with Bard
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
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.
Varus Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Varus in LoL
The Varus 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, Varus 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 drop shows that Bard helps Varus perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Varus is an ally to Bard, he sees a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could signal that Bard does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Varus is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Varus plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Varus in team fights.
Synergies between Varus and Bard
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Is Varus better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Varus that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Varus. By being on the same side as Varus, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good synergy between Varus and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Varus. That means Varus players need to be cautious when arranging Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by grouping Varus and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a lot of tankyness. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Varus to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Varus and Bard synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Varus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Varus boasted an average win rate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Bard with Varus are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.