Bard with Zilean
How to Synergize Bard and Zilean
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Bard Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Bard with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Bard Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Bard in LoL
The Bard Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Zilean helps Bard perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Zilean, he gets a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Zilean helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played together with Zilean on the same side, 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 Zilean.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Zilean on the same team, he on average takes more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of protecting Bard during teamfights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Bard that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Zilean is a relatively poor teammate for Bard. By being on the same side as Bard, he drops their win rate by -2.6% to 49.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a negative synergy between Bard and Zilean that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zilean has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be cautious when finding Zilean allies 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 work well with you.
When playing alongside, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to buff allies and debuff enemies. When paired, these two may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Bard and Zilean together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of your Zilean ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Bard to synergize with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard and Zilean synergy build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Zilean than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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