Bard with Nami
How to Synergize Bard and Nami
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Bard Nami Synergy Summary
Best Bard vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Nami
Tips for Playing as Bard with Nami
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.
Advice to Understand How Nami Will Play
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Bard Nami Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nami as Bard in LoL
The Bard Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Bard sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nami. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nami helps Bard perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Bard plays on the same team as Nami, he sees a big jump in his total damage dealt. This could indicate that Nami provides protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played with Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nami.
Additionally, when Bard plays with Nami on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nami does a poor job of protecting Bard in teamfights.
Synergies between Bard and Nami
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Is Bard better when played alongside Nami?
There is no one best champion pairing for Bard that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Nami is a terrible companion for Bard. By locking into the same team as Bard, she decreases their win rate by -19.9% to 32.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Bard and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nami has a much lower diffuclty than Bard. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Nami allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by pairing Bard and Nami together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of cover. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nami ally's skill level, you need to 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
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to pair well with Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Bard and Nami synergy build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Bard combined at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Nami than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 32.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Bard players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward, Relentless Hunter, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 32.4% winrate overall.
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