Bard vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Bard
based on 3,839 Bard vs Darius matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Bard vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Bard against Darius counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Darius’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Darius. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes less damage than Darius. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Darius
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Who is Better, Bard or Darius?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Darius, with a 53.3% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter to Darius.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Darius, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Dariusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Darius 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 teammates during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Darius. Focus your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard to counter Darius during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically accumulates a lot less CS as Darius. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Bard versus Darius build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Bard used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Darius than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.3% when playing against Darius with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Darius as Bard, you should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Bard vs Darius counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Darius as Bard are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.