Tristana with Bard
How to Synergize Tristana and Bard
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Tristana Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Tristana and Bard
Tips for Playing as Tristana with Bard
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Tristana in LoL
The Tristana 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, Tristana sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Tristana perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Tristana is an ally to Bard, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Bard does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Tristana is played together with Bard on the same side, 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.
Additionally, when Tristana plays with Bard on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Tristana during team fights.
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Is Tristana better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect ally for Tristana that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Bard is a decent teammate for Tristana. By locking into the same team as Tristana, he raises their win rate by 2.6% to 51.5%. This shows that there is a potentially meaningful strategic relationship between Tristana and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Tristana. That means Tristana players should be very careful when finding Bard allies to play with, as they will require a much higher level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Tristana and Bard together, you probably will not be granting your team much support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Tristana to synergize with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Tristana and Bard synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Tristana incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Tristana had an average winrate of 51.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Legend: Bloodline, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Tristana and Bard pairings, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.5% winrate overall.
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