Bard with Leona
How to Synergize Bard and Leona
based on 56 Bard with Leona pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Leona
Tips for Playing as Bard with Leona
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 Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Bard Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Bard in LoL
The Bard Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Leona helps Bard perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Leona, he gets a very large increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Leona supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Leona on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Leona.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Leona on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Leona?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Bard that will always be his ideal teammate. Yet, Leona is a very bad teammate for Bard. By playing on the same team as Bard, she drops their win rate by -16.6% to 35.7%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad synergy between Bard and Leona that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when enlisting Leona teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. When paired, these champions may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Leona together, you probably will not be giving your team enough attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Leona ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to prioritize in your Bard and Leona synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Leona than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 35.7% helping carry Leona with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for Bard and Leona pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 35.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Leona with Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific division, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.