Kayle vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kayle
based on 3,067 Kayle vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayle vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kayle vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kayle
Tips for Playing as Kayle against Bard
Kayle benefits greatly from Attack Damage and Ability Power, making hybrid items like Nashor's Tooth and Hextech Gunblade very effective on her.
Using Divine Judgment on a high-DPS ally can turn the tides of battle by giving your ally free reign to attack.
Kayle's attacks become incredibly powerful once she gains attack range from Divine Ascent. Play safe until then.
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.
Kayle vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kayle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Kayle against Bard matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Kayle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Kayle may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Kayle normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kayle and Bard
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Who is Better, Kayle or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kayle usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Kayle makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Kayle does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Kayle also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kayle into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Kayle also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayle 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Kayle is a garbage counter for Bard. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kayle against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Kayle in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayle usually gets much more CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Kayle versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Nashor's Tooth. When Kayle incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kayle had an average win rate of 47.1% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Bard as Kayle, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kayle vs Bard battles, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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