Bard with Aphelios
How to Synergize Bard and Aphelios
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Bard Aphelios Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Bard with Aphelios
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 Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Bard Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Bard in LoL
The Bard Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, 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 Aphelios. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Aphelios helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is an ally to Aphelios, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could signal that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Aphelios on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Aphelios on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Aphelios does a decent job of covering Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, overall, Aphelios is a relatively poor companion for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -2.1% to 50.2%. This proves that there is a bad bond between Bard and Aphelios that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Aphelios has a greater difficulty than Bard. That means you must be careful when lining up Aphelios teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Aphelios together, you may not be giving your other allies very much AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Aphelios teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Bard and Aphelios synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Aphelios than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take 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 picked for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Aphelios with Bard are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.