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.
Cull the Meek drains an enormous amount of life when used in the middle of the fray. You can use this to bait opponents into thinking you are weaker than you really are.
Slice and Dice excels at harassing maneuvers. Slice in, follow up with another skill and then Dice back out to safety.
Cooldown reduction is especially good for Renekton, allowing him to both quickly build up and use his Fury.
The Bard Renekton synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Renekton, 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 Renekton. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Renekton helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Renekton, he sees a little decrease in his total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Renekton does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Renekton on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Renekton. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Renekton.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Renekton on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Renekton does a decent job of protecting Bard during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Bard that will always be his top ally. However, Renekton is a terrible teammate for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -4.9% to 47.4%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Bard and Renekton that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Renekton has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Renekton allies to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Renekton together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough magical damage output. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Renekton ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Bard to pair well with Renekton during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to include in your Bard and Renekton synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Renekton than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 47.4% when playing alongside Renekton with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.4% win rate overall.
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