Bard with Olaf
How to Synergize Bard and Olaf
based on 923 Bard with Olaf pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Bard with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Bard Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Bard in LoL
The Bard Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Olaf helps Bard perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Olaf, he sees a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This may demonstrate that Olaf does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Olaf 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 with Olaf.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Olaf on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Olaf does a decent job of covering Bard in teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no top ally for Bard that will always be his best teammate. However, Olaf is a very typical ally for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 51.5%. This shows that there is a weak strategic relationship between Bard and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Olaf teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, Bard players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Bard and Olaf together, you may not be granting your other allies very much magical damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf ally, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to synergize with Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to build first in your Bard and Olaf synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when playing alongside Olaf with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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