Bard with Kayn
How to Synergize Bard and Kayn
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Bard Kayn Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Kayn
Tips for Playing as Bard with Kayn
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 Kayn Will Play
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
Bard Kayn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kayn as Bard in LoL
The Bard Kayn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kayn, 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 Kayn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kayn helps Bard perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is an ally to Kayn, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Kayn helps provide 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 with Kayn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Kayn.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Kayn on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Kayn does a poor job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Kayn?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Bard that will always be his best teammate. However, overall, Kayn is a very typical companion for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 52.3%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Bard and Kayn that allows them to perform at the same level together than without each other.
Kayn has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kayn teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, Bard players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Kayn together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of magic damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Kayn ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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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 Kayn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Bard and Kayn synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Kayn than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Kayn with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use 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 sets players used for Bard and Kayn pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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