Bard with Jayce
How to Synergize Bard and Jayce
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Bard Jayce Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Jayce
Tips for Playing as Bard with Jayce
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 Jayce Will Play
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
Bard Jayce Synergy Stats
How to Play with Jayce as Bard in LoL
The Bard Jayce synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Jayce, 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 Jayce. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Jayce helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Jayce, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This could indicate that Jayce does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Jayce on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Jayce.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Jayce on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Jayce does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Jayce?
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Jayce is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -1.1% to 51.2%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Bard and Jayce that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Jayce has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Jayce comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Bard and Jayce together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a great deal of AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that offsets this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Jayce ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Bard and Jayce synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Jayce than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Jayce with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.2% winrate overall.
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