Vi with Bard
How to Synergize Vi and Bard
based on 2,929 Vi with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Vi Bard Synergy Summary
Best Vi vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Vi and Bard
Tips for Playing as Vi with Bard
A fully charged Vault Breaker will deal double damage. It's great for catching and finishing off fleeing enemies.
Relentless Force does full damage to anyone caught in the shockwave. Use it on minions in lane to hit enemies hiding behind them.
Cease and Desist is a powerful initiation tool, just remember not to get too far ahead of the rest of your team.
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.
Vi Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Vi in LoL
The Vi 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, Vi 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 worsening shows that Bard helps Vi perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Vi tries to synergize with Bard, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage dealt. This change may signal that Bard provides protection for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Vi is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Vi plays with Bard on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Vi in teamfights.
Synergies between Vi and Bard
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Is Vi better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best champion pairing for Vi that will no matter what be her best synergy. However, Bard is a good ally for Vi. By locking into the same team as Vi, he raises their win rate by 2.5% to 54.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Vi and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Vi. That means you should be very careful when arranging Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Vi players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Vi and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough magic damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Vi in order to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Vi and Bard synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Vi combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Vi boasted an average win rate of 54.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Vi players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 54.1% winrate overall.
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