To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
The Syndra 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, Syndra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Syndra perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Syndra is paired with Bard, she sees a little increase in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Bard supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Syndra is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Bard.
Additionally, when Syndra plays with Bard on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Syndra during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best companion for Syndra that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. However, Bard is a great ally for Syndra. By locking into the same side as Syndra, he raises their win rate by 3.5% to 52.2%. This shows that there is a very strong bond between Syndra and Bard that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Syndra. That means Syndra players must be cautious when finding Bard teammates to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Working on the same side, Syndra players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Syndra and Bard together, you may not be granting your other allies enough attack damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Syndra in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Syndra and Bard synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Syndra bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 52.2% when playing alongside Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Bard with Syndra are given for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.