Ahri with Bard
How to Synergize Ahri and Bard
based on 2,877 Ahri with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Ahri Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ahri and Bard
Tips for Playing as Ahri with Bard
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Ahri in LoL
The Ahri 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, Ahri sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Ahri perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ahri is an ally to Bard, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Bard helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Ahri 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 alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Ahri plays with Bard on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Ahri during teamfights.
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Is Ahri better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best champion pairing for Ahri that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. Yet, Bard is a decent companion for Ahri. By locking into the same side as Ahri, he increases their win rate by 2.6% to 50.8%. This shows that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Ahri and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Ahri. That means you must be cautious when lining up Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing together, Ahri players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Ahri and Bard together, you will not be giving your team a lot of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Ahri to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to build first in your Ahri and Bard synergy build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ahri had an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Bard with Ahri are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.