Bard vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Bard
based on 5,559 Bard vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Graves Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Graves as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Bard vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some influential Bard vs. Graves matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Graves’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Graves. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Graves
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Who is Better, Bard or Graves?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Graves, with a 52.9% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter for Graves.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Graves, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champion to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Gravesas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Graves 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 an above average counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically racks up less CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Bard versus Graves build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Graves with this build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Graves as Bard, Bard players 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 picked for Bard vs Graves fights, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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