Akali vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Akali
based on 6,282 Akali vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Bard
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Akali vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Akali vs. Bard counter stats that may help us realize the differences between these two champs. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Akali often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Bard
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Who is Better, Akali or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Akali does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Akali into Bardas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Akali also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Akali vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Akali is a terribly counter for Bard. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Akali against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Akali in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali most often picks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Akali versus Bard build consist of Cryptbloom, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Bard than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 47.6% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Bard as Akali, Akali players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Akali vs Bard counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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