Kayn vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kayn
based on 4,882 Kayn vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kayn vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kayn vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kayn
Tips for Playing as Kayn against Bard
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kayn in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Kayn against Bard counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champs. Kayn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kayn may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Kayn typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kayn and Bard
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Who is Better, Kayn or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kayn usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Kayn makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Kayn does have a lower winrate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Kayn also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kayn into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Kayn has only a small 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kayn 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Kayn is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kayn against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kayn in order to counter Bard during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kayn often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Kayn versus Bard build consist of Axiom Arc, Hubris, and Profane Hydra. When Kayn bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Bard as Kayn, Kayn players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kayn vs Bard LoL games, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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