Bard vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Bard
based on 1,357 Bard vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Naafiri
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.
Bard vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some critical Bard against Naafiri counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Naafiri. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Naafiri. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Naafiri?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Naafiri, with a 51.0% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Naafiri.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Naafiri, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Naafirias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash 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 Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter 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 Naafiri matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Naafiri. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard typically racks up a lot less CS as Naafiri. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Naafiri build include Frozen Heart, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Naafiri than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Naafiri as Bard, you should equip 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 rune sets players chose for Bard vs Naafiri matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.0% winrate overall.
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