Bard with Kalista
How to Synergize Bard and Kalista
based on 705 Bard with Kalista pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Kalista Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Kalista
Tips for Playing as Bard with Kalista
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 Kalista Will Play
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
Bard Kalista Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kalista as Bard in LoL
The Bard Kalista synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kalista, 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 Kalista. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kalista helps Bard perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard tries to synergize with Kalista, he sees a little drop in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Kalista does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Kalista on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kalista.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Kalista on the same side, he usually receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Kalista does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
Synergies between Bard and Kalista
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Is Bard better when played alongside Kalista?
There is no one best synergy for Bard that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, Kalista is a very bad ally for Bard. By being on the same team as Bard, she drops their win rate by -3.6% to 48.7%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Bard and Kalista that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Kalista has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kalista comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Kalista together, you probably will not be granting your other allies much engage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Kalista ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing 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 pair well with Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to use in your Bard and Kalista synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kalista than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kalista with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Bard and Kalista pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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