Katarina vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Katarina
based on 3,974 Katarina vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Bard
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several vital Katarina versus Bard matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Bard
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Who is Better, Katarina or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Katarina also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Katarina also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Katarina in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina on average racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Bard as Katarina, Katarina players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Bard counters, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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