Neeko with Bard
How to Synergize Neeko and Bard
based on 1,697 Neeko with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Neeko Bard Synergy Summary
Best Neeko vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Neeko and Bard
Tips for Playing as Neeko with Bard
You can set her passive to use hotkeys in the options menu. The default is Shift+F1~F5
Try to use Inherent Glamour sparingly, ineffective uses will put enemies on the alert.
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.
Neeko Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Neeko in LoL
The Neeko 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, Neeko sees a very large drop in her 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 Neeko perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Neeko is paired with Bard, she sees a clear improvement in her complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Bard provides protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Neeko is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Neeko plays with Bard on the same side, she on average receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Neeko in teamfights.
Synergies between Neeko and Bard
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Is Neeko better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect ally for Neeko that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, Bard is a good teammate for Neeko. By playing on the same team as Neeko, he improves their win rate by 1.9% to 51.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a potentially meaningful synergy between Neeko and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Neeko. That means you should be very careful when lining up Bard comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much higher level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, Neeko players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by grouping Neeko and Bard together, you may not be providing your other teammates enough attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you should focus on maximizing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Neeko to synergize with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to include in your Neeko and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Neeko incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Neeko boasted an average winrate of 51.3% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Neeko players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.3% win rate overall.
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