Blitzcrank with Bard
How to Synergize Blitzcrank and Bard
based on 67 Blitzcrank with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Blitzcrank Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Blitzcrank and Bard
Tips for Playing as Blitzcrank with Bard
Using Blitzcrank's grab to pull an enemy into your tower range followed by a Power Fist will allow the tower to get several hits on them.
The 1-2-3 combo of Rocket Grab, Power Fist, and Static Field can devastate an individual opponent.
Advice to Understand How Bard Will Play
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.
Blitzcrank Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Blitzcrank in LoL
The Blitzcrank Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Blitzcrank sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Blitzcrank perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Blitzcrank tries to synergize with Bard, he gets a great improvement in his full damage output. This could indicate that Bard supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Blitzcrank is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Blitzcrank plays with Bard on the same side, he usually takes more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Blitzcrank in teamfights.
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Is Blitzcrank better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Blitzcrank that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Bard is a terrible teammate for Blitzcrank. By playing on the same side as Blitzcrank, he drops their win rate by -15.8% to 35.8%. This proves that there is a terrible synergy between Blitzcrank and Bard that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Blitzcrank. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Conversely, by aligning Blitzcrank and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your team enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Blitzcrank in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Blitzcrank and Bard synergy build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Blitzcrank incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Blitzcrank had an average winrate of 35.8% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Hextech Flashtraption, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 35.8% win rate overall.
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