Lissandra vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Lissandra
based on 1,421 Lissandra vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lissandra vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Lissandra vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Lissandra
Tips for Playing as Lissandra against Bard
Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
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.
Lissandra vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Lissandra in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several significant Lissandra against Bard matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Lissandra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Lissandra may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Lissandra often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lissandra and Bard
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Who is Better, Lissandra or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lissandra usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 45.9% win rate. Thus, Lissandra makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Lissandra does have a much lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Lissandra also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Lissandra into Bard.
Additionally, Lissandra also has a good 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lissandra 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 team fights.
Lissandra is a bad counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lissandra against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lissandra often racks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Lissandra versus Bard build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Lissandra boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Bard as Lissandra, Lissandra players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Lissandra vs Bard LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
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