Soraka with Bard
How to Synergize Soraka and Bard
based on 55 Soraka with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Soraka Bard Synergy Summary
Best Soraka vs Bard Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Soraka Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Soraka and Bard
Tips for Playing as Soraka with Bard
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Soraka in LoL
The Soraka 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, Soraka sees a very large drop in her 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 Soraka perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Soraka is an ally to Bard, she gets a big jump in her total damage output. This difference could indicate that Bard provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Soraka is played together with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Bard. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Soraka plays with Bard on the same side, she on average receives significantly more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of covering Soraka during teamfights.
Synergies between Soraka and Bard
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Soraka better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Soraka that will no matter what be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a not very good teammate for Soraka. By being on the same team as Soraka, he decreases their win rate by -2.1% to 47.3%. This shows that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Soraka and Bard that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Soraka. That means Soraka players need to be cautious when arranging Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to support your allies. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Soraka and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Soraka
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Soraka Players
How We Calculated Our Soraka Bard Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Soraka to pair well with Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to prioritize in your Soraka and Bard synergy build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other typical builds. In fact, Soraka boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, Soraka players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Revitalize, and Conditioning runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% winrate overall.
If you would like to get Soraka and Bard collaboration tips and builds for a a specific player tier, please choose one from the selection menu shown above. At first, the stats and guides shown are calculated using all rounds run with these champions.