Bard vs Thresh
How to Beat Thresh as Bard
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Bard vs Thresh Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Thresh as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Thresh
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 Thresh
Intentionally breaking a wall of The Box can allow a vulnerable ally to escape unscathed.
Thresh's Death Sentence has a long cast time. Watch for the cast to begin to take evasive actions.
Thresh relies on collecting souls for a portion of his defense and damage. Try punishing him when he moves to collect them.
Bard vs Thresh Counter Stats
How to Counter Thresh with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several influential Bard against Thresh counter stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champs. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Thresh’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Thresh..
Bard normally has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Thresh. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with higher 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 Thresh?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Thresh, with a 51.5% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Thresh.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Thresh, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Threshas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Thresh. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Thresh 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 teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter for Thresh. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Thresh.
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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 Thresh during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a similar amount of CS as Thresh. Champs who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Thresh build include Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Thresh than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Thresh with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Thresh as Bard, you should use 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 picked for Bard vs Thresh battles, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
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