Nasus vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nasus
based on 2,956 Nasus vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Bard
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nasus in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several important Nasus vs. Bard counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Nasus typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nasus and Bard
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Who is Better, Nasus or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nasus usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Nasus makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Nasus does have a lower win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Nasus also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nasus into Bard.
Additionally, Nasus also 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nasus 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 allied champions during team fights.
Nasus is a trash counter for Bard. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nasus against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nasus in order 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Bard build include Trinity Force, Frozen Heart, and Sundered Sky. When Nasus included at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Bard than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Bard as Nasus, Nasus players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nasus vs Bard counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Nasus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.