Bard vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Bard
based on 3,652 Bard vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Bard vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several significant Bard vs. Leona counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Leona..
Bard normally has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Leona. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Leona
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Who is Better, Bard or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Leona, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Leona.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Leonaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Leona matchups, Bard is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Leona. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Bard versus Leona build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Leona than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.5% when countering Leona with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Leona as Bard, Bard players 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 players picked for Bard vs Leona counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% win rate overall.
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