Bard with Anivia
How to Synergize Bard and Anivia
based on 1,406 Bard with Anivia pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Anivia Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Anivia Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Anivia
Tips for Playing as Bard with Anivia
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 Anivia Will Play
Timing Flash Frost with Frostbite can lead to devastating combinations.
It can be very difficult for enemy champions to kill her egg early in game. Seize the advantage by playing aggressively.
Anivia is extremely reliant on Mana for Glacial Storm. Try getting items with Mana or going for a Crest of the Ancient Golem buff on Summoner's Rift.
Bard Anivia Synergy Stats
How to Play with Anivia as Bard in LoL
The Bard Anivia synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Anivia, 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 Anivia. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Anivia helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Anivia, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Anivia helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Anivia on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Anivia.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Anivia on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Anivia does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Anivia?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Anivia is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Bard and Anivia that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Anivia has a greater difficulty than Bard. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Anivia teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Anivia together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Anivia ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 to work well with Anivia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Bard and Anivia synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Anivia than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Anivia with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Bard and Anivia pairings, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.1% win rate overall.
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