Irelia with Bard
How to Synergize Irelia and Bard
based on 2,868 Irelia with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Irelia Bard Synergy Summary
Best Irelia vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Irelia and Bard
Tips for Playing as Irelia with Bard
Defiant Dance is not interrupted by crowd control, try timing it for incoming disables.
Flawless Duet does not have a maximum travel distance, try using it in creative ways.
Use Bladesurge to cover great distances by targeting low life minions on your way to champion targets.
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.
Irelia Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Irelia in LoL
The Irelia 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, Irelia 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 Irelia perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Irelia plays on the same team as Bard, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Bard provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Irelia is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Irelia plays with Bard on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Irelia during team fights.
Synergies between Irelia and Bard
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Is Irelia better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best synergy for Irelia that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, Bard is a great teammate for Irelia. By being on the same side as Irelia, he improves their win rate by 4.3% to 54.1%. This demonstrates that there is a very real bond between Irelia and Bard that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Irelia. That means Irelia players must be very careful when arranging Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Irelia players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Irelia and Bard together, you probably will not be giving your other allies a lot of cover. Make sure to include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Irelia in order to pair well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Irelia and Bard synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Blade of The Ruined King, and Titanic Hydra. When Irelia bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when paired up with Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Irelia boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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