Bard with Katarina
How to Synergize Bard and Katarina
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Bard Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Bard with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Bard Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Bard in LoL
The Bard Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Katarina helps Bard perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Katarina, he sees a barely noticable drop in his total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Katarina doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Katarina does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Bard that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, overall, Katarina is a very typical teammate for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is only a small synergy between Bard and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Katarina allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Katarina together, you will not be providing your team enough utility. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Katarina teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Katarina during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Bard and Katarina synergy build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.5% helping carry Katarina with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players 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 used for Bard and Katarina pairings, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% win rate overall.
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