Bard vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Bard
based on 4,967 Bard vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Master Yi Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Bard Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Master Yi as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Bard vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some valuable Bard against Master Yi counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Master Yi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Master Yi. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Master Yi. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Master Yi
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Bard or Master Yi?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when taking on Master Yi, with a 50.3% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter to Master Yi.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Master Yi, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Master Yias his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Master Yi matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Master Yi. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Master Yi.
Other Champion Matchups Against Bard
Additional Information for Bard Players
How We Calculated Our Bard vs Master Yi Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Master Yi. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Bard versus Master Yi build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better versus Master Yi than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when countering Master Yi with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Master Yi as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Bard vs Master Yi LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.3% winrate overall.
If you would like to get Bard vs Master Yi tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a a specific division rank, please select one from the selection menu above. If viewing for the first time, the stats and guides displayed are calculated using all matches with data with both champions.