Jax with Bard
How to Synergize Jax and Bard
based on 7,172 Jax with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jax Bard Synergy Summary
Best Jax vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jax and Bard
Tips for Playing as Jax with Bard
Jax benefits greatly from items that have both Ability Power and Attack Damage such as Guinsoo's Rageblade and Hextech Gunblade.
Jax can Leap Strike to friendly units, including wards. You can use them to plan your escape.
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.
Jax Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Jax in LoL
The Jax 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, Jax sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Jax perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jax is an ally to Bard, he gets a little increase in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Bard provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Jax is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Additionally, when Jax plays with Bard on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Jax during team fights.
Synergies between Jax and Bard
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Is Jax better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Jax that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. However, Bard is a superb companion for Jax. By playing on the same side as Jax, he improves their win rate by 3.2% to 54.0%. This clearly indicates that there is an important bond between Jax and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Jax. That means Jax players must be very careful when arranging Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Jax players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Jax and Bard together, you may not be giving your side much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Jax in order to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Jax and Bard synergy build include Guardian Angel, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Jax combined at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Jax had an average win rate of 54.0% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Jax and Bard pairings, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 54.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Bard with Jax are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.