Gwen with Bard
How to Synergize Gwen and Bard
based on 2,290 Gwen with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Gwen Bard Synergy Summary
Best Gwen vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Gwen and Bard
Tips for Playing as Gwen with Bard
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Gwen in LoL
The Gwen 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, Gwen sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Gwen perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Gwen tries to synergize with Bard, she observes a small increase in her full damage output. This could signal that Bard helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Gwen 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 Gwen plays with Bard on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Gwen during teamfights.
Synergies between Gwen and Bard
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Is Gwen better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top ally for Gwen that will no matter what be her top ally. However, Bard is a decent teammate for Gwen. By playing on the same team as Gwen, he improves their win rate by 2.6% to 50.7%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Gwen and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Gwen. That means Gwen players need to be cautious when finding Bard allies to play with, as they will need a much higher level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Gwen players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Gwen and Bard together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of tankyness. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing 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 truly master Gwen to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Gwen and Bard synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen combined at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 50.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Gwen players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.7% win rate overall.
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