Bard with Ahri
How to Synergize Bard and Ahri
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Bard Ahri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Ahri
Tips for Playing as Bard with Ahri
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.
Advice to Understand How Ahri Will Play
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.
Bard Ahri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Ahri as Bard in LoL
The Bard Ahri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ahri, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Ahri. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Ahri helps Bard perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Ahri, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Ahri does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Ahri 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 Ahri.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Ahri on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Ahri does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Ahri?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. Yet, Ahri is a not very good teammate for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 50.8%. This signals that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Bard and Ahri that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Ahri has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Ahri comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Ahri together, you may not be granting your side a lot of sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ahri ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to pair well with Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Bard and Ahri synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Ahri than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.8% helping carry Ahri with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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