Bard with Wukong
How to Synergize Bard and Wukong
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Bard Wukong Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Wukong
Tips for Playing as Bard with Wukong
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 Wukong Will Play
Decoy and Nimbus Strike work well together to quickly strike your enemy and get out before they can retaliate.
Try using Decoy near brush to make an enemy overreact to your movement.
Bard Wukong Synergy Stats
How to Play with Wukong as Bard in LoL
The Bard Wukong synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Wukong, 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 Wukong. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Wukong helps Bard perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Wukong, he gets a small decrease in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Wukong doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Wukong 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 with Wukong.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Wukong on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Wukong does a decent job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Wukong?
There is no perfect companion for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal ally. However, Wukong is a very typical companion for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he decreases their win rate by -0.5% to 51.8%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Bard and Wukong that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Wukong has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Wukong allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, Bard players should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Bard and Wukong together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Wukong ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing 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 truly master Bard in order to synergize with Wukong during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Bard and Wukong synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Wukong than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.8% helping carry Wukong with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 combinations we have analyed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.8% win rate overall.
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