Zac with Bard
How to Synergize Zac and Bard
based on 2,434 Zac with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zac Bard Synergy Summary
Best Zac vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Bard
Tips for Playing as Zac with Bard
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Zac perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac is an ally to Bard, he observes a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played alongside 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 alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Bard on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Zac in team fights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Zac that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a fantastic teammate for Zac. By locking into the same team as Zac, he increases their win rate by 3.8% to 55.6%. This clearly indicates that there is an important synergy between Zac and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Zac. That means Zac players need to be careful when arranging Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Zac players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Zac and Bard together, you may not be giving your side much sustained damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zac to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Zac and Bard synergy build include Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Hollow Radiance. When Zac used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 55.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Zac and Bard pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.6% win rate overall.
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