Vayne with Bard
How to Synergize Vayne and Bard
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Vayne Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Vayne and Bard
Tips for Playing as Vayne with Bard
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Vayne in LoL
The Vayne 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, Vayne sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Vayne perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vayne is an ally to Bard, she observes a small decrease in her full damage dealt. This may signal that Bard does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Vayne is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Vayne plays with Bard on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Bard does a decent job of covering Vayne in team fights.
Synergies between Vayne and Bard
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Is Vayne better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best ally for Vayne that will always be her ideal ally. However, overall, Bard is a pretty good ally for Vayne. By being on the same team as Vayne, he improves their win rate by 2.4% to 52.7%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Vayne and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Vayne. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Vayne and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Vayne to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Vayne and Bard synergy build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Mercurial Scimitar, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Vayne had an average winrate of 52.7% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.7% win rate overall.
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