Akshan vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Akshan
based on 2,030 Akshan vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akshan vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Bard
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
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.
Akshan vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Akshan in LoL
The stats shown here clarify some strategic Akshan vs. Bard counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Akshan often has a much larger longest kill spree than their counter does. On average, they takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Bard
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Who is Better, Akshan or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 46.0% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Akshan does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Akshan also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less difficult champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Akshan into Bard.
Additionally, Akshan also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Akshan is a bad counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Akshan to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan often racks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Akshan versus Bard build consist of Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan incorporated at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better vs. Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 46.0% battling Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Bard as Akshan, Akshan players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Akshan vs Bard counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.0% winrate overall.
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