Bard vs Warwick
How to Beat Warwick as Bard
based on 4,054 Bard vs Warwick matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Warwick Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Warwick as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Warwick
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 Warwick
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
Bard vs Warwick Counter Stats
How to Counter Warwick with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some valuable Bard versus Warwick counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Warwick. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. On average, he receives less damage than Warwick. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Warwick?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Warwick, with a 52.5% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Warwick.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Warwick, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Warwickas 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 utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Warwick 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Bard is an above average counter to Warwick. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Warwick.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard in order to counter Warwick during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets less CS as Warwick. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard versus Warwick build include Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Warwick than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.5% battling Warwick with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Warwick 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 builds players used for Bard vs Warwick LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.5% win rate overall.
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