Janna with Bard
How to Synergize Janna and Bard
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Janna Bard Synergy Summary
Best Janna vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Janna and Bard
Tips for Playing as Janna with Bard
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Janna in LoL
The Janna 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, Janna sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Janna perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Janna plays on the same team as Bard, she sees a big jump in her total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Bard provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Janna is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Janna plays with Bard on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Janna during teamfights.
Synergies between Janna and Bard
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Is Janna better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top champion pairing for Janna that will no matter what be her best teammate. Yet, Bard is a superb teammate for Janna. By locking into the same side as Janna, he increases their win rate by 6.7% to 57.7%. This proves that there is a very strong synergy between Janna and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Janna. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Bard teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Janna players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by bringing Janna and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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How We Calculated Our Janna Bard Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to synergize with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to build first in your Janna and Bard synergy build include Ardent Censer, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Janna incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 57.7% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Janna players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Cheap Shot runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 57.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Bard with Janna are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.