Bard with Shaco
How to Synergize Bard and Shaco
based on 2,632 Bard with Shaco pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Bard Shaco Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Bard and Shaco
Tips for Playing as Bard with Shaco
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 Shaco Will Play
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Bard Shaco Synergy Stats
How to Play with Shaco as Bard in LoL
The Bard Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Shaco helps Bard perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Bard is paired with Shaco, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This could signal that Shaco helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Bard is played alongside Shaco on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Shaco. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Shaco.
Moreover, when Bard plays with Shaco on the same team, he usually takes more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Bard in team fights.
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Is Bard better when played alongside Shaco?
There is no one best ally for Bard that will no matter what be his top synergy. Yet, Shaco is a very typical ally for Bard. By playing on the same side as Bard, he lowers their win rate by -0.7% to 51.6%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Bard and Shaco that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Shaco has a lower difficulty than Bard. That means Bard players don't need to be careful when enlisting Shaco allies to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Bard and Shaco together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of protection for burst damage. Plan to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Shaco ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Bard to synergize with Shaco during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Bard and Shaco synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when paired up with Shaco than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Bard and Shaco pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Shaco with Bard are given for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.