Bard vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Bard
based on 4,604 Bard vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Bard vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Bard against Kai'Sa matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kai'Sa. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Bard or Kai'Sa?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Kai'Sa, with a 56.1% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a fantastic counter to Kai'Sa.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Kai'Saas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Kai'Sa 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 teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Kai'Sa. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a lot less CS compared to Kai'Sa. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Kai'Sa build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Kai'Sa than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 56.1% when playing against Kai'Sa with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Kai'Sa as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Bard vs Kai'Sa counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.1% win rate overall.
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