Shaco with Bard
How to Synergize Shaco and Bard
based on 2,632 Shaco with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Bard Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Bard
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Bard
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco 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, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Shaco perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco is an ally to Bard, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Bard supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played 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 with Bard.
Moreover, when Shaco plays with Bard on the same side, he often takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Shaco during team fights.
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Shaco that will always be his ideal teammate. However, Bard is a decent ally for Shaco. By locking into the same team as Shaco, he improves their win rate by 2.2% to 51.6%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Shaco and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Bard comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Shaco and Bard together, you may not be providing your other allies a great deal of cover. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Shaco to pair well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to include in your Shaco and Bard synergy build include Blade of The Ruined King, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Shaco incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 51.6% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Shaco players should use the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Legend: Alacrity, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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