LeBlanc with Bard
How to Synergize LeBlanc and Bard
based on 1,690 LeBlanc with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
LeBlanc Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing LeBlanc and Bard
Tips for Playing as LeBlanc with Bard
Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
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.
LeBlanc Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as LeBlanc in LoL
The LeBlanc 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, LeBlanc sees a large worsening in her 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 LeBlanc perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When LeBlanc is an ally to Bard, she sees a marginal improvement in her complete damage output. This change could demonstrate that Bard provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when LeBlanc is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Moreover, when LeBlanc plays with Bard on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting LeBlanc during teamfights.
Synergies between LeBlanc and Bard
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Is LeBlanc better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best champion pairing for LeBlanc that will always be her top synergy. However, Bard is a very typical teammate for LeBlanc. By locking into the same team as LeBlanc, he improves their win rate by 0.7% to 47.5%. This shows that there is not really a strong bond between LeBlanc and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Bard has a lower difficulty than LeBlanc. That means LeBlanc players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Bard allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, LeBlanc players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping LeBlanc and Bard together, you will not be providing your other teammates a lot of AD. Make sure to include other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of LeBlanc in order to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to get in your LeBlanc and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 47.5% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, LeBlanc players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.5% win rate overall.
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