Bard vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Bard
based on 6,282 Bard vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Akali
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 Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Bard vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Bard versus Akali matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Akali. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Akali
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Who is Better, Bard or Akali?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Akali.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Akalias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Akali matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a good counter to Akali. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Bard against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Akali during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Bard versus Akali build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Akali than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.4% when playing against Akali with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Akali as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Bard vs Akali counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Akali as Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. To filter the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.