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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Bard Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Ziggs helps Bard perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard plays on the same team as Ziggs, he observes a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Ziggs does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Ziggs on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Ziggs.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Ziggs on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Bard in team fights.
There is no ideal synergy for Bard that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Ziggs is a not very good ally for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -1.7% to 50.6%. This shows that there is a negative synergy between Bard and Ziggs that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Ziggs has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Ziggs comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Bard and Ziggs together, you may not be giving your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Ziggs teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Bard in order to pair well with Ziggs during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to get in your Bard and Ziggs synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Ziggs than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.6% helping carry Ziggs with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against 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 builds players used for Bard and Ziggs pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.6% winrate overall.
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