Kindred with Bard
How to Synergize Kindred and Bard
based on 2,150 Kindred with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Kindred Bard Synergy Summary
Best Kindred vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kindred and Bard
Tips for Playing as Kindred with Bard
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Kindred in LoL
The Kindred Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Kindred sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Kindred perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kindred is paired with Bard, they gets a little increase in their full damage output. This difference could signal that Bard provides cover for them to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kindred is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Kindred plays with Bard on the same team, they typically receives a little less damage than when they fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Bard does a decent job of protecting Kindred in teamfights.
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Is Kindred better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best companion for Kindred that will always be their top teammate. However, Bard is a good companion for Kindred. By locking into the same side as Kindred, he improves their win rate by 2.8% to 51.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Kindred and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Kindred. That means Kindred players should be very careful when finding Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Kindred and Bard together, you will not be granting your side enough cover. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kindred in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Kindred and Bard synergy build include Trinity Force, Wit's End, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred bought at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better as an ally of Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Kindred had an average winrate of 51.1% helping carry Bard with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Kindred players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Kindred and Bard pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.1% win rate overall.
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