Caitlyn with Bard
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Bard
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Caitlyn Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Bard
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Bard
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Caitlyn perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is paired with Bard, she observes a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Bard provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Bard on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn during teamfights.
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Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Caitlyn that will always be her best synergy. However, Bard is a great companion for Caitlyn. By playing on the same side as Caitlyn, he increases their win rate by 3.6% to 52.9%. This signals that there is a strong bond between Caitlyn and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players need to be very careful when finding Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Caitlyn and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your side a great deal of engage. We recommend you include other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, 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 Caitlyn in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Caitlyn and Bard synergy build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Caitlyn bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing alongside Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Caitlyn and Bard pairings, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Bard with Caitlyn are presented for every ranked division. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.