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.
Try and keep targets in the range of your Flamespitter. It can deal a lot of damage overtime.
If you are winning a fight you can use your ultimate to wall off an escape path.
Try and pace yourself to stay in the Danger Zone to maximize your effectiveness. It is easy to overheat if you rapidly use your abilities.
The Bard Rumble synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Rumble, 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 Rumble. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Rumble helps Bard perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Rumble, he sees a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Rumble does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Rumble on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Rumble. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Rumble.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Rumble on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Rumble does a poor job of protecting Bard during team fights.
There is no ideal champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, Rumble is a below average companion for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -1.4% to 50.9%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Bard and Rumble that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Rumble has a greater difficulty than Bard. That means you should be very careful when arranging Rumble comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Bard players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Rumble together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Rumble ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to pair well with Rumble during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Bard and Rumble synergy build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Rumble than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Rumble with this build.
To have the best likelihood 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. Of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Rumble with Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.