Kassadin with Bard
How to Synergize Kassadin and Bard
based on 1,665 Kassadin with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kassadin Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Bard
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Bard
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Kassadin perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin tries to synergize with Bard, he sees a small increase in his total damage dealt. This may signal that Bard provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Kassadin plays with Bard on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Kassadin during team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Bard
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a very typical companion for Kassadin. By locking into the same team as Kassadin, he raises their win rate by 0.8% to 50.8%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong strategic relationship between Kassadin and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Kassadin. That means you need to be very careful when finding Bard allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Kassadin and Bard together, you will not be granting your other allies a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Kassadin to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Kassadin and Bard synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 50.8% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kassadin and Bard pairings, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Bard with Kassadin are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.