Bard with Kindred
How to Synergize Bard and Kindred
based on 2,150 Bard with Kindred pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Kindred Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Kindred
Tips for Playing as Bard with Kindred
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 Kindred Will Play
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
Bard Kindred Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kindred as Bard in LoL
The Bard Kindred synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kindred, 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 Kindred. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kindred helps Bard perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is paired with Kindred, he observes a measurable drop in his complete damage output. This could signal that Kindred does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Kindred 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 Kindred.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Kindred on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Kindred does a decent job of protecting Bard during team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Kindred?
There is no one best companion for Bard that will no matter what be his top synergy. However, Kindred is a below average ally for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, they drops their win rate by -1.2% to 51.1%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Bard and Kindred that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Kindred has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Kindred comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and Kindred together, you may not be providing your team much protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Kindred ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, 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 to pair well with Kindred during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Kindred synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Kindred than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.1% helping carry Kindred with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you 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 builds we have analyed for Bard and Kindred pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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