Darius with Bard
How to Synergize Darius and Bard
based on 3,797 Darius with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Darius Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Bard
Tips for Playing as Darius with Bard
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Darius perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Bard, he sees a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference may signal that Bard helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside Bard 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 synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Darius plays with Bard on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Darius in team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Darius that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a pretty good companion for Darius. By locking into the same side as Darius, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 51.8%. This proves that there is pretty good synergy between Darius and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means Darius players must be cautious when arranging Bard teammates to play with, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Darius and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Darius to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to have in your Darius and Bard synergy build include Trinity Force, Force of Nature, and Sundered Sky. When Darius included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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