Bard vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Bard
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Bard vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Bard vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several critical Bard vs. Lee Sin counter statistics that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lee Sin’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Lee Sin. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Bard or Lee Sin?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Lee Sin, with a 55.6% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a fantastic counter for Lee Sin.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Lee Sin, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Lee Sinas 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 Lee Sin. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Lee Sin 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 to Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Bard against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Lee Sin during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard versus Lee Sin build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Lee Sin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 55.6% battling Lee Sin with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Lee Sin as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Bard vs Lee Sin clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.6% winrate overall.
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