Bard vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Bard
based on 3,003 Bard vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Irelia
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 Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Bard vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some strategic Bard against Irelia counter statistics that can help us realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Irelia’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Irelia. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Irelia. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Irelia
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Who is Better, Bard or Irelia?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Irelia, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Irelia.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Irelia, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging character to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Ireliaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Irelia 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 team members during team fights.
Bard is an above average counter to Irelia. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Irelia during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Irelia build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting Irelia than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.4% when countering Irelia with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Irelia as Bard, Bard players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Bard vs Irelia LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Irelia as Bard are presented for all ranked divisions. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.