Garen vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Garen
based on 3,537 Garen vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Bard Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Bard as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Bard
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Garen in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several influential Garen against Bard matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between the two. For instance, Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Garen often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Bard
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Who is Better, Garen or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Garen usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 46.3% win rate. As a result, Garen makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Garen does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Garen also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Garen into Bard.
Moreover, Garen also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen 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 teammates during team fights.
Garen is a terribly counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Garen against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen typically gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Garen versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Stridebreaker. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average win rate of 46.3% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Bard as Garen, Garen players should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Garen vs Bard fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.3% win rate overall.
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