Diana with Bard
How to Synergize Diana and Bard
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Diana Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Diana and Bard
Tips for Playing as Diana with Bard
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Diana in LoL
The Diana 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, Diana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Diana perform not as well in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Diana is an ally to Bard, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Bard supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Diana is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when Diana plays with Bard on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Diana in team fights.
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Is Diana better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Diana that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a great companion for Diana. By being on the same team as Diana, he increases their win rate by 3.0% to 53.0%. This signals that there is a strong bond between Diana and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Diana. That means you should be very careful when arranging Bard comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Diana players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Diana and Bard together, you may not be granting your other teammates a great deal of utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 Diana in order to synergize with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Diana and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Diana included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Diana boasted an average winrate of 53.0% when playing alongside Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.0% win rate overall.
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