Bard vs Anivia
How to Beat Anivia as Bard
based on 1,612 Bard vs Anivia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Anivia Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Anivia as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Anivia
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 Anivia
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
Bard vs Anivia Counter Stats
How to Counter Anivia with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Bard against Anivia counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Anivia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Anivia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Anivia. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Bard or Anivia?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Anivia, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Anivia.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Anivia, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Bard into Aniviaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Anivia matchups, Bard is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter for Anivia. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Bard against Anivia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Anivia during both the laning 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 presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically gets a lot less CS relative to Anivia. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Anivia build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Anivia than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 51.4% when countering Anivia with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Anivia as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Bard vs Anivia counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
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