Bard with Illaoi
How to Synergize Bard and Illaoi
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Bard Illaoi Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Bard with Illaoi
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 Illaoi Will Play
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Bard Illaoi Synergy Stats
How to Play with Illaoi as Bard in LoL
The Bard Illaoi synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Illaoi, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Illaoi. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Illaoi helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Illaoi, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may signal that Illaoi supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Illaoi on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Illaoi. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Illaoi.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Illaoi on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Illaoi does a decent job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Illaoi?
There is no ideal companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Illaoi is a not very good teammate for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 50.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Bard and Illaoi that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Illaoi has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when arranging Illaoi teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Illaoi together, you will not be providing your side enough magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Illaoi ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Bard and Illaoi synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Illaoi than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Bard and Illaoi pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% winrate overall.
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