Olaf with Bard
How to Synergize Olaf and Bard
based on 923 Olaf with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Olaf Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Bard
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Bard
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
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.
Olaf Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf 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, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Olaf perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Olaf is paired with Bard, he sees a little increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Bard helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played together with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Bard.
Moreover, when Olaf plays with Bard on the same team, he typically takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Olaf during team fights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Olaf that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Olaf. By being on the same side as Olaf, he improves their win rate by 2.5% to 51.5%. This demonstrates that there is pretty good bond between Olaf and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be very careful when arranging Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by grouping Olaf and Bard together, you will not be providing your other allies a lot of AP. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will 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 Olaf in order to synergize with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Olaf and Bard synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Ravenous Hydra, and Death's Dance. When Olaf incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Olaf boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, Olaf players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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