Hecarim vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Hecarim
based on 2,837 Hecarim vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Hecarim vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Hecarim vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Hecarim against Bard
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Hecarim in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Hecarim versus Bard matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Hecarim often has a much larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Hecarim and Bard
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Who is Better, Hecarim or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 44.7% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Hecarim does have a much lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Hecarim also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Bard.
Moreover, Hecarim has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Hecarim 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 allies during team fights.
Hecarim is a trash counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Hecarim against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Bard build consist of Trinity Force, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Hecarim used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average winrate of 44.7% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Bard as Hecarim, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Hecarim vs Bard counters, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Hecarim are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.