Bard with Zoe
How to Synergize Bard and Zoe
based on 1,158 Bard with Zoe pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Zoe Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Zoe Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Zoe
Tips for Playing as Bard with Zoe
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 Zoe Will Play
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
Bard Zoe Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zoe as Bard in LoL
The Bard Zoe synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zoe, 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 Zoe. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zoe helps Bard perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard is an ally to Zoe, he sees a little drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Zoe does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Zoe 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 Zoe.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Zoe on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zoe does a poor job of protecting Bard in team fights.
Synergies between Bard and Zoe
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Is Bard better when played alongside Zoe?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Zoe is a not very good teammate for Bard. By locking into the same side as Bard, she lowers their win rate by -2.7% to 49.6%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Bard and Zoe that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zoe has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Zoe teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, Bard players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Together, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by bringing Bard and Zoe together, you will not be providing your side very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Zoe ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to work well with Zoe during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to use in your Bard and Zoe synergy build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Zoe than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.6% when playing alongside Zoe with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should use 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 team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Zoe with Bard are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier on the page.