Bard with Diana
How to Synergize Bard and Diana
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Bard Diana Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Diana
Tips for Playing as Bard with Diana
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 Diana Will Play
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
Bard Diana Synergy Stats
How to Play with Diana as Bard in LoL
The Bard Diana synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Diana, 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 Diana. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Diana helps Bard perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Diana, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Diana does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Diana 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 alongside Diana.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Diana on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Diana does a decent job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Diana?
There is no one best synergy for Bard that will always be his top teammate. Yet, Diana is a very typical ally for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, she increases their win rate by 0.7% to 53.0%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Bard and Diana that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Diana has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Diana teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Diana together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Diana ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down 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 truly master Bard in order to work well with Diana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to include in your Bard and Diana synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Diana than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Diana with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Diana with Bard are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.