Zed with Bard
How to Synergize Zed and Bard
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Zed Bard Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Bard
Tips for Playing as Zed with Bard
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Bard. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Bard helps Zed perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed tries to synergize with Bard, he gets a small increase in his full damage output. This difference may signal that Bard helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Bard 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 synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Bard on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Bard does a decent job of protecting Zed in teamfights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Bard?
There is no top synergy for Zed that will no matter what be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Bard is a good teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he raises their win rate by 2.0% to 50.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a good bond between Zed and Bard that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Bard allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Zed players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Bard together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much AP. Make sure to have other champs on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Bard teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Zed to synergize with Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to prioritize in your Zed and Bard synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Zed bought at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Zed players should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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