Bard with Alistar
How to Synergize Bard and Alistar
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Bard Alistar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Bard with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Bard Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Bard in LoL
The Bard Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Alistar helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is an ally to Alistar, he observes a small increase in his complete damage output. This may signal that Alistar provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Alistar.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Alistar on the same team, he often receives less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of covering Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a very typical companion for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -0.4% to 51.9%. This proves that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Bard and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Alistar has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Alistar allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working cooperatively, Bard players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Bard and Alistar together, you will not be providing your team a great deal of attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to pair well with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to have in your Bard and Alistar synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Alistar with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Bard and Alistar pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% win rate overall.
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