Bard with Nilah
How to Synergize Bard and Nilah
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Bard Nilah Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nilah
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nilah
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.
Bard Nilah Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nilah as Bard in LoL
The Bard Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, 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 Nilah. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nilah helps Bard perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Nilah, he gets a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nilah supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that their participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nilah.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Nilah on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nilah?
There is no perfect ally for Bard that will no matter what be his #1 ally. Yet, overall, Nilah is a below average ally for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, they drops their win rate by -1.1% to 51.2%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Bard and Nilah that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nilah has a greater difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players should be cautious when arranging Nilah allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Bard players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Nilah together, you probably will not be providing your team much tankyness. Plan to have other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nilah ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should 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 pair well with Nilah during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Bard and Nilah synergy build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nilah than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Bard and Nilah pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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