Bard with Taric
How to Synergize Bard and Taric
based on 101 Bard with Taric pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Taric Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Taric Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Taric
Tips for Playing as Bard with Taric
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 Taric Will Play
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Bard Taric Synergy Stats
How to Play with Taric as Bard in LoL
The Bard Taric synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Taric, 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 Taric. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Taric helps Bard perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Taric, he sees a little drop in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Taric does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Taric on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Taric.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Taric on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Taric does a decent job of covering Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Taric?
There is no perfect synergy for Bard that will always be his top teammate. However, overall, Taric is a not very good companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, he drops their win rate by -1.8% to 50.5%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Bard and Taric that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Taric has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when arranging Taric teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, Bard players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Bard and Taric together, you will not be granting your side very much sustained damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Taric ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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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 Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Bard and Taric synergy build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Taric than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.5% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Taric with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Bard players should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.5% winrate overall.
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