Darius vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Darius
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Darius vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Bard
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several strategic Darius vs. Bard matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Darius typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Darius and Bard
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Who is Better, Darius or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Darius usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 46.7% win rate. As a result, Darius makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Darius does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Darius into Bard.
Additionally, Darius also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Darius vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Darius is a garbage counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Darius in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius typically racks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Darius versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Stridebreaker. When Darius combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Bard than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Darius boasted an average win rate of 46.7% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Bard as Darius, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Darius vs Bard counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Darius are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.