Zoe with Bard
How to Synergize Zoe and Bard
based on 1,158 Zoe with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zoe Bard Synergy Summary
Best Zoe vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zoe and Bard
Tips for Playing as Zoe with Bard
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Zoe in LoL
The Zoe 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, Zoe sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Zoe perform worse in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe is an ally to Bard, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Bard supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zoe is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Bard on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Bard does a decent job of covering Zoe during teamfights.
Synergies between Zoe and Bard
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Is Zoe better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal ally for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Zoe. By locking into the same team as Zoe, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 49.6%. This shows that there is a somewhat important bond between Zoe and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Zoe. That means you need to be careful when finding Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Zoe players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Zoe and Bard together, you will not be providing your other allies enough AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zoe to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Zoe and Bard synergy build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average win rate of 49.6% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.6% winrate overall.
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