Kled vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kled
based on 1,448 Kled vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kled vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kled vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kled
Tips for Playing as Kled against Bard
Chaaaaaaaarge!!! can be cast at a great range. Try and predict where the enemy team will be by the time you reach them.
The last hit of Violent Tendencies deals more damage than the first three - make sure you hit it!
Kled generates some courage by killing minions, but gets much more from fighting Champions.
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.
Kled vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kled in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several critical Kled versus Bard matchup statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Kled’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kled may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kled often has a much larger longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kled and Bard
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Who is Better, Kled or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kled usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Kled makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Kled does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Kled also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Kled into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kled also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 in League of Legends, in Kled 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 teamfights.
Kled is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kled against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kled
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kled 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kled usually picks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kled versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Titanic Hydra, and Sundered Sky. When Kled combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better countering Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kled boasted an average win rate of 48.7% battling Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Bard as Kled, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Kled vs Bard battles, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.7% win rate overall.
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