Cassiopeia vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Cassiopeia
based on 1,132 Cassiopeia vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Cassiopeia vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Cassiopeia vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Cassiopeia
Tips for Playing as Cassiopeia against Bard
Lead your enemy when targeting with Noxious Blast to ensure the hit.
Use Twin Fang on poisoned stationary targets like monsters and units stunned by her Petrifying Gaze for maximum damage.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Cassiopeia vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Cassiopeia in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Cassiopeia against Bard matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Cassiopeia may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Cassiopeia usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Cassiopeia and Bard
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Who is Better, Cassiopeia or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Cassiopeia usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Cassiopeia makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Cassiopeia does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Cassiopeia also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Cassiopeia into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Cassiopeia also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Cassiopeia vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Cassiopeia is a terribly counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Cassiopeia against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Cassiopeia to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Cassiopeia usually racks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Cassiopeia versus Bard build include Seraph's Embrace, Cosmic Drive, and Rod of Ages. When Cassiopeia incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Bard than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Cassiopeia boasted an average win rate of 47.8% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of beating Bard as Cassiopeia, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Cassiopeia vs Bard matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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