Jarvan IV with Bard
How to Synergize Jarvan IV and Bard
based on 1,580 Jarvan IV with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Jarvan IV Bard Synergy Summary
Best Jarvan IV vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Jarvan IV and Bard
Tips for Playing as Jarvan IV with Bard
Use Demacian Standard as a scouting tool when worried about incoming enemies.
You can use the Dragon Strike / Demacian Standard combo to get out of your own Cataclysm arenas.
Split your basic attacks on different champions at the beginning of fights to maximize 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.
Jarvan IV Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Jarvan IV in LoL
The Jarvan IV 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, Jarvan IV sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Jarvan IV perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Jarvan IV tries to synergize with Bard, he gets a little increase in his complete damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Bard helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Jarvan IV is played with Bard on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Jarvan IV plays with Bard on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Bard does a poor job of covering Jarvan IV during teamfights.
Synergies between Jarvan IV and Bard
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Is Jarvan IV better when played alongside Bard?
There is no perfect synergy for Jarvan IV that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. Yet, Bard is a below average teammate for Jarvan IV. By being on the same side as Jarvan IV, he decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 47.4%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Jarvan IV and Bard that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Jarvan IV. That means you need to be careful when finding Bard allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much greater level of skill to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to soak up damage. Together, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
Conversely, by bringing Jarvan IV and Bard together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough magic damage. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Bard teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Jarvan IV to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to use in your Jarvan IV and Bard synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Jarvan IV included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Jarvan IV had an average win rate of 47.4% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing your oponents, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jarvan IV and Bard pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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