Bard with LeBlanc
How to Synergize Bard and LeBlanc
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Bard LeBlanc Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and LeBlanc
Tips for Playing as Bard with LeBlanc
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 LeBlanc Will Play
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
Bard LeBlanc Synergy Stats
How to Play with LeBlanc as Bard in LoL
The Bard LeBlanc synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with LeBlanc, 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 LeBlanc. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that LeBlanc helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard tries to synergize with LeBlanc, he gets a small increase in his total damage output. This change may demonstrate that LeBlanc supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside LeBlanc on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside LeBlanc.
Moreover, when Bard plays with LeBlanc on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that LeBlanc does a poor job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside LeBlanc?
There is no top companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, LeBlanc is a very bad ally for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -4.8% to 47.5%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Bard and LeBlanc that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
LeBlanc has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting LeBlanc teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working together, Bard players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Bard and LeBlanc together, you may not be providing your other allies very much attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your LeBlanc ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 synergize with LeBlanc during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Bard and LeBlanc synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with LeBlanc than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 47.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to LeBlanc with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing 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 sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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