Bard vs Karthus
How to Beat Karthus as Bard
based on 1,373 Bard vs Karthus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Karthus Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Karthus as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Karthus
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 Karthus
Karthus can cast spells for a short duration after he is killed. Move away from his corpse to be safe.
Make sure you always have enough health to survive Requiem, even if you have to go back to the base more frequently to heal.
Bard vs Karthus Counter Stats
How to Counter Karthus with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some strategic Bard versus Karthus matchup stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Karthus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Karthus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Karthus. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Karthus
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Who is Better, Bard or Karthus?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Karthus, with a 55.6% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a fantastic counter to Karthus.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Karthus, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Karthusas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Karthus. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Karthus 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 team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Karthus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Karthus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Karthus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically gets less CS as Karthus. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Bard versus Karthus build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better countering Karthus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 55.6% battling Karthus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Karthus as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Karthus counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.6% win rate overall.
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