Jayce vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Jayce
based on 1,690 Jayce vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Bard Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Jayce Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Bard as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Bard
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
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.
Jayce vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Jayce in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several strategic Jayce versus Bard counter stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Jayce 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.
Jayce usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Bard
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Jayce or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 43.6% win rate. Therefore, Jayce makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Jayce does have a much lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Jayce also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Jayce into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Jayce 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 facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce 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.
Jayce is a bad counter for Bard. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Jayce against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Jayce
Additional Information for Jayce Players
How We Calculated Our Jayce vs Bard Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Jayce 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce often picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Jayce versus Bard build consist of Muramana, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Jayce included at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Jayce had an average win rate of 43.6% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Bard as Jayce, Jayce players should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Jayce vs Bard LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Jayce are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a specific division, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.