Bard vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Bard
based on 4,148 Bard vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Bard vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several important Bard vs. Malphite counter stats that can help you interpret the differences between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Malphite’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Malphite. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Malphite
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Who is Better, Bard or Malphite?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Malphite, with a 53.0% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Malphite.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Malphite, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Malphiteas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Malphite 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 an above average counter for Malphite. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Malphite during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often picks up a lot less CS relative to Malphite. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard versus Malphite build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Malphite than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 53.0% when countering Malphite with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Malphite as Bard, you should take the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Bard vs Malphite counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.0% win rate overall.
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