Bard vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Bard
based on 1,347 Bard vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Bard vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Bard against Heimerdinger matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences between these two champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Heimerdinger. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Bard or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Heimerdinger, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter to Heimerdinger.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Heimerdingeras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Heimerdinger matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Heimerdinger during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically gets a lot less CS compared to Heimerdinger. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Heimerdinger build consist of Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs. Heimerdinger than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Heimerdinger with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Heimerdinger as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Bard vs Heimerdinger clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
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