Azir vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Azir
based on 2,126 Azir vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Bard
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Azir against Bard counter statistics that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Azir normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Bard
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Who is Better, Azir or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Azir makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Azir does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Azir also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Azir into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Azir is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Azir against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Azir versus Bard build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Bard than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Azir, Azir players should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Azir vs Bard counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Azir are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.