Warwick with Bard
How to Synergize Warwick and Bard
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Warwick Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Warwick and Bard
Tips for Playing as Warwick with Bard
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Warwick in LoL
The Warwick 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, Warwick sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Bard helps Warwick perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Warwick plays on the same team as Bard, he observes a little increase in his complete damage output. This may demonstrate that Bard provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Warwick is played alongside 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 with Bard.
Additionally, when Warwick plays with Bard on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Bard does a poor job of protecting Warwick during teamfights.
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Is Warwick better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top companion for Warwick that will 100% of the time be his top ally. However, Bard is a good teammate for Warwick. By playing on the same team as Warwick, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 51.4%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Warwick and Bard that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Bard has a much greater difficulty compared to Warwick. That means Warwick players need to be careful when enlisting Bard comrades to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to fight well with you.
Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Warwick and Bard together, you will not be providing your side much magical damage output. Plan to include other champs on your team that offsets this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard ally, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Warwick in order to work well with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to use in your Warwick and Bard synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Titanic Hydra. When Warwick incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 51.4% helping carry Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, Warwick players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 51.4% winrate overall.
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