Bard with Brand
How to Synergize Bard and Brand
based on 3,915 Bard with Brand pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Brand Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Brand
Tips for Playing as Bard with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Bard Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Bard in LoL
The Bard Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Brand helps Bard perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Brand, he sees a small increase in his full damage dealt. This could signal that Brand provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Brand 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 Brand.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Brand on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Brand?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Brand is a top-tier ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he increases their win rate by 3.2% to 55.5%. This proves that there is an important strategic relationship between Bard and Brand that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when finding Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing together, Bard players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Bard and Brand together, you will not be giving your team enough sustained damage output. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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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 synergize with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Bard and Brand synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Brand than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 55.5% when playing alongside Brand with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.5% win rate overall.
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