Bard vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Bard
based on 1,267 Bard vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Kayle Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Bard Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
D
F
Skill Order
q
w
e
Runes
p
q
w
e
r
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.
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.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Bard vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Bard against Kayle matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Kayle. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Kayle
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Bard or Kayle?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Kayle, with a 53.4% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter to Kayle.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Kayle, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Kayleas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayle. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Kayle 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 to Kayle. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Kayle.
Other Champion Matchups Against Bard
Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Bard Players
How We Calculated Our Bard vs Kayle Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Kayle during both the lane 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Kayle build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Knight's Vow, and Shard of True Ice. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Kayle than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when countering Kayle with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Kayle as Bard, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Kayle matchups, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 53.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Bard are given for every ranked division. To filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.