Bard with Gwen
How to Synergize Bard and Gwen
based on 2,290 Bard with Gwen pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Gwen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Gwen
Tips for Playing as Bard with Gwen
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 Gwen Will Play
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
Bard Gwen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gwen as Bard in LoL
The Bard Gwen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gwen, 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 Gwen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Gwen helps Bard perform poorer in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Gwen, he gets a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may indicate that Gwen doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Gwen on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Gwen. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Gwen.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Gwen on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Gwen does a decent job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Gwen?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Gwen is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, she drops their win rate by -1.6% to 50.7%. This demonstrates that there is a harmful synergy between Bard and Gwen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Gwen has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gwen allies to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Gwen together, you probably will not be granting your team enough engage. Plan to have other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Gwen ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will 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 synergize with Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Bard and Gwen synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Gwen than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.7% helping carry Gwen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Bard players should equip 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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