Kha'Zix vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kha'Zix
based on 3,406 Kha'Zix vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kha'Zix vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kha'Zix vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kha'Zix
Tips for Playing as Kha'Zix against Bard
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
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.
Kha'Zix vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kha'Zix in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Kha'Zix versus Bard counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Kha'Zix’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kha'Zix may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kha'Zix usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kha'Zix and Bard
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Who is Better, Kha'Zix or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kha'Zix usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 46.5% win rate. As a result, Kha'Zix makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Kha'Zix does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Kha'Zix also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Kha'Zix into Bard.
Moreover, Kha'Zix has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kha'Zix 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 late stage team fights.
Kha'Zix is a trash counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kha'Zix against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kha'Zix 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kha'Zix often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Kha'Zix versus Bard build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Profane Hydra. When Kha'Zix combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kha'Zix boasted an average winrate of 46.5% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Bard as Kha'Zix, Kha'Zix players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kha'Zix vs Bard matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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