Bard vs Gragas
How to Beat Gragas as Bard
based on 2,057 Bard vs Gragas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Gragas Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Gragas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gragas as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Gragas
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 Gragas
Body Slam is on a very low cooldown, making it difficult to pursue Gragas. Don't overextend yourself chasing him.
Gragas can knock everybody away with his ultimate. Be careful that you don't get knocked into him or, worse, an enemy tower.
Bard vs Gragas Counter Stats
How to Counter Gragas with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Bard vs. Gragas counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gragas’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Gragas. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Gragas. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Gragas
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Who is Better, Bard or Gragas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Gragas, with a 53.2% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a great counter to Gragas.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Gragas, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Gragasas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gragas. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Gragas 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 allies during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Gragas. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Gragas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Gragas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically gets a lot less CS compared to Gragas. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Bard versus Gragas build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.2% when playing against Gragas with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Gragas as Bard, Bard players should equip 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 picked for Bard vs Gragas clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.2% win rate overall.
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