Bard vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Bard
based on 3,067 Bard vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Bard vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify several valuable Bard against Kayle counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between this pair of champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kayle. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kayle. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Kayle
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Who is Better, Bard or Kayle?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Kayle, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Kayle.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Kayleas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach 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 Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Kayle 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 good counter for Kayle. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often racks up a lot less CS relative to Kayle. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Kayle build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Kayle than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when countering Kayle with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Kayle as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard vs Kayle battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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