Bard vs Miss Fortune
How to Beat Miss Fortune as Bard
based on 2,992 Bard vs Miss Fortune matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Miss Fortune Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Miss Fortune Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Miss Fortune as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Miss Fortune
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 Miss Fortune
Miss Fortune's speed boost is removed if she is damaged by an enemy.
Miss Fortune is easy to kill if you can reach her; target her first in team fights.
Bard vs Miss Fortune Counter Stats
How to Counter Miss Fortune with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several influential Bard vs. Miss Fortune matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Miss Fortune. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Miss Fortune. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Miss Fortune
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Who is Better, Bard or Miss Fortune?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Miss Fortune, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter to Miss Fortune.
While Bard does have a lower win rate compared to Miss Fortune, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Miss Fortuneas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Miss Fortune. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Miss Fortune matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champ 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 somewhat poor counter to Miss Fortune. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Miss Fortune.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Miss Fortune 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a lot less CS as Miss Fortune. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard versus Miss Fortune build consist of Locket of the Iron Solari, Knight's Vow, and Shard of True Ice. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Miss Fortune than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.2% when playing against Miss Fortune with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Miss Fortune as Bard, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Zombie Ward, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Miss Fortune counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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