Poppy with Bard
How to Synergize Poppy and Bard
based on 1,697 Poppy with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Poppy Bard Synergy Summary
Best Poppy vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Poppy and Bard
Tips for Playing as Poppy with Bard
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Poppy in LoL
The Poppy 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, Poppy sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Poppy perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Poppy is an ally to Bard, she observes a sizeable uptick in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Bard helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Poppy is played with Bard on the same side, 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 Poppy plays with Bard on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Poppy in teamfights.
Synergies between Poppy and Bard
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Is Poppy better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal synergy for Poppy that will no matter what be her #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Bard is a pretty good companion for Poppy. By locking into the same team as Poppy, he increases their win rate by 1.9% to 51.6%. This signals that there is a good bond between Poppy and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Poppy. That means you must be cautious when enlisting Bard teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Poppy players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
In contrast, by aligning Poppy and Bard together, you will not be giving your side a great deal of magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, 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 Poppy in order to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Poppy and Bard synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy combined at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 51.6% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, Poppy players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Poppy and Bard pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Bard with Poppy are given for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.