Zyra with Bard
How to Synergize Zyra and Bard
based on 239 Zyra with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zyra Bard Synergy Summary
Best Zyra vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zyra and Bard
Tips for Playing as Zyra with Bard
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Zyra in LoL
The Zyra 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, Zyra sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Zyra perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zyra tries to synergize with Bard, she sees a noticable increase in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Bard helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Zyra is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Zyra plays with Bard on the same team, she on average receives more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Zyra during teamfights.
Synergies between Zyra and Bard
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Is Zyra better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Zyra that will always be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a terrible ally for Zyra. By being on the same side as Zyra, he lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 48.5%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Zyra and Bard that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Zyra. That means Zyra players need to be careful when arranging Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Zyra and Bard together, you will not be giving your team very much engage potential. We recommend you include other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Zyra and Bard synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra combined at least these three great items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zyra boasted an average win rate of 48.5% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.5% win rate overall.
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