Lee Sin vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Lee Sin
based on 3,652 Lee Sin vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lee Sin vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Lee Sin vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Lee Sin
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin against Bard
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Lee Sin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several strategic Lee Sin versus Bard matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Lee Sin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lee Sin may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Lee Sin normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lee Sin and Bard
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Who is Better, Lee Sin or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lee Sin usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 44.4% win rate. As a result, Lee Sin makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Lee Sin does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Lee Sin also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lee Sin into Bard.
Moreover, Lee Sin has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Lee Sin 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.
Lee Sin is a terribly counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lee Sin against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lee Sin 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lee Sin on average accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Lee Sin versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Death's Dance. When Lee Sin incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better against Bard than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Lee Sin boasted an average win rate of 44.4% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Bard as Lee Sin, Lee Sin players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Lee Sin vs Bard clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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