Bard vs Ahri
How to Beat Ahri as Bard
based on 2,918 Bard vs Ahri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Ahri Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Ahri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ahri as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Ahri
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.
Advice to Win Against Ahri
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
Bard vs Ahri Counter Stats
How to Counter Ahri with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some vital Bard versus Ahri counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ahri’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ahri. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ahri. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Ahri
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Who is Better, Bard or Ahri?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Ahri, with a 54.7% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Ahri.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate than Ahri, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Ahrias his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Ahri matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Ahri. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Ahri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Ahri during both the early game 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 suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a lot less CS compared to Ahri. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus Ahri build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Ahri than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.7% when playing against Ahri with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Ahri as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Ahri clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.7% winrate overall.
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