Kayn with Bard
How to Synergize Kayn and Bard
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Kayn Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Bard
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Bard
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn 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 Kayn perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is an ally to Bard, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Kayn plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Kayn that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. Yet, Bard is a top-tier teammate for Kayn. By playing on the same team as Kayn, he increases their win rate by 3.1% to 52.3%. This signals that there is a very real bond between Kayn and Bard that results in them performing better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Kayn. That means you should be very careful when arranging Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing on the same side, Kayn players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kayn and Bard together, you may not be providing your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability 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 follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top items to get in your Kayn and Bard synergy build consist of Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Kayn bought at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 52.3% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 52.3% winrate overall.
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