Bard vs Viego
How to Beat Viego as Bard
based on 4,288 Bard vs Viego matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Viego Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Viego Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viego as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Viego
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 Viego Counter Stats
How to Counter Viego with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Bard versus Viego counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viego’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Viego. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Viego. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Viego
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Who is Better, Bard or Viego?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Viego, with a 51.1% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter to Viego.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Viego, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Viegoas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Viego. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Viego matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher 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 for Viego. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Viego.
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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 Viego during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Viego. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Viego build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Viego than with many other common item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.1% when countering Viego with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Viego as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Bard vs Viego matchups, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.1% win rate overall.
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