Akali with Bard
How to Synergize Akali and Bard
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Akali Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Bard
Tips for Playing as Akali with Bard
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Akali in LoL
The Akali 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, Akali sees a very large drop in her 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 Akali perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Akali is an ally to Bard, she sees a little increase in her complete damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Bard helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Akali plays with Bard on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Akali that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, overall, Bard is a good ally for Akali. By being on the same side as Akali, he improves their win rate by 1.4% to 50.5%. This proves that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Akali and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Bard comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Akali and Bard together, you may not be providing your team very much protection for burst damage. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Akali and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Shadowflame. When Akali bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, Akali players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Akali and Bard pairings, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.5% winrate overall.
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