Gragas vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Gragas
based on 2,057 Gragas vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gragas vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Gragas vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Gragas
Tips for Playing as Gragas against Bard
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
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.
Gragas vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Gragas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several influential Gragas vs. Bard matchup statistics that may help us figure out the differences between this pair of champions. For instance, Gragas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Gragas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Gragas usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gragas and Bard
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Who is Better, Gragas or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gragas usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Gragas makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Gragas does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Gragas also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Gragas into Bard.
Additionally, Gragas 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Gragas vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Gragas is a garbage counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gragas against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Gragas 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gragas often racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Gragas versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Gragas used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Gragas boasted an average winrate of 46.8% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Bard as Gragas, you should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Gragas vs Bard battles, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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