Lux with Bard
How to Synergize Lux and Bard
based on 3,488 Lux with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Lux Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lux and Bard
Tips for Playing as Lux with Bard
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Lux in LoL
The Lux 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, Lux sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Lux perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lux is an ally to Bard, she sees a sizeable uptick in her complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Bard provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Lux is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Lux plays with Bard on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Lux during team fights.
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Is Lux better when played alongside Bard?
There is no one best companion for Lux that will no matter what be her top ally. Yet, overall, Bard is a fantastic ally for Lux. By playing on the same team as Lux, he raises their win rate by 3.2% to 53.0%. This shows that there is a very real strategic relationship between Lux and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Lux. That means you need to be cautious when finding Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Lux players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by aligning Lux and Bard together, you may not be giving your other allies very much AD. Plan to include other champions on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lux to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to include in your Lux and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Horizon Focus, and Luden's Companion. When Lux incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 53.0% helping carry Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.0% winrate overall.
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