Bard vs Vladimir
How to Beat Vladimir as Bard
based on 3,654 Bard vs Vladimir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Vladimir Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Vladimir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Vladimir as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Vladimir
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 Vladimir
Items that counter Health stacking, such as Liandry's Torment and Blade of the Ruined King, are very effective against Vladimir.
Making Vladimir use Sanguine Pool at the start of a fight will maximize the Health cost of the ability to him.
Try to take Vladimir down before Hemoplague detonates, as it will heal him for each afflicted enemy Champion.
Bard vs Vladimir Counter Stats
How to Counter Vladimir with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some vital Bard vs. Vladimir matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Vladimir’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Vladimir. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Vladimir. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Vladimir
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Who is Better, Bard or Vladimir?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Vladimir, with a 52.3% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter for Vladimir.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Vladimir, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to learn. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Vladimiras his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vladimir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Vladimir matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Bard is a good counter for Vladimir. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Vladimir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a lot less CS as Vladimir. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Bard versus Vladimir build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when facing Vladimir than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.3% when playing against Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Vladimir as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard vs Vladimir counters, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 52.3% win rate overall.
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