Xayah with Bard
How to Synergize Xayah and Bard
based on 1,343 Xayah with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Xayah Bard Synergy Summary
Best Xayah vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xayah and Bard
Tips for Playing as Xayah with Bard
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Xayah in LoL
The Xayah 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, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Bard helps Xayah perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is paired with Bard, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This difference could indicate that Bard does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played alongside Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Xayah plays with Bard on the same team, she on average takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Xayah in team fights.
Synergies between Xayah and Bard
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Is Xayah better when played alongside Bard?
There is no ideal ally for Xayah that will always be her #1 synergy. However, Bard is a good ally for Xayah. By locking into the same side as Xayah, he raises their win rate by 2.2% to 49.9%. This proves that there is pretty good bond between Xayah and Bard that allows them to perform stronger together than without each other.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Xayah. That means you should be cautious when lining up Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, Xayah players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by grouping Xayah and Bard together, you will not be giving your side very much magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this gap in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
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Additional Information for Xayah Players
How We Calculated Our Xayah Bard Synergy Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Xayah to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Xayah and Bard synergy build consist of Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 49.9% helping carry Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Xayah and Bard pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Bard with Xayah are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.