Zilean with Bard
How to Synergize Zilean and Bard
based on 167 Zilean with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Bard
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Bard
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean 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, Zilean sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Bard helps Zilean perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is an ally to Bard, he observes a big jump in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Bard helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Bard on the same team, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Zilean in team fights.
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Zilean that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Bard is a very typical companion for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, he decreases their win rate by -1.0% to 49.7%. This signals that there is only a small synergy between Zilean and Bard that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means Zilean players need to be very careful when arranging Bard comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Together, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Although, by bringing Zilean and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other allies very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you have other champs on your team that fills this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zilean in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Zilean and Bard synergy build include Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Zilean combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 49.7% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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