Volibear with Bard
How to Synergize Volibear and Bard
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Volibear Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear and Bard
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Volibear Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Volibear perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear plays on the same team as Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Bard on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Volibear in team fights.
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Volibear that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Volibear. By playing on the same side as Volibear, he improves their win rate by 1.5% to 49.5%. This signals that there is a good bond between Volibear and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Volibear. That means you must be careful when finding Bard teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by pairing Volibear and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much magic damage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Volibear to work well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to get in your Volibear and Bard synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 49.5% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Volibear players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Volibear and Bard pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.5% winrate overall.
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