Aphelios vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Aphelios
based on 2,651 Aphelios vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Bard
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Aphelios against Bard counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Aphelios usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Bard
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Bard?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aphelios usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 45.8% win rate. As a result, Aphelios makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Aphelios does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Aphelios into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Aphelios also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Aphelios is a bad counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aphelios in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios most often accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Aphelios versus Bard build include Infinity Edge, Kraken Slayer, and The Collector. When Aphelios combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 45.8% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Bard as Aphelios, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Aphelios vs Bard face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.8% win rate overall.
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