K'Sante vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as K'Sante
based on 1,929 K'Sante vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Bard
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with K'Sante in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical K'Sante versus Bard matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Bard..
K'Sante usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between K'Sante and Bard
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, K'Sante makes a bad counter to Bard.
While K'Sante does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when they face off with one another, K'Sante also has a greater level of difficulty that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking K'Sante into Bardas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
K'Sante is a terribly counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your K'Sante versus Bard build include Unending Despair, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did significantly better against Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 45.7% battling Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Bard as K'Sante, K'Sante players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Biscuit Delivery, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for K'Sante vs Bard battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.7% winrate overall.
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