Nilah vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nilah
based on 1,637 Nilah vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nilah vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nilah vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nilah
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.
Nilah vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nilah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several critical Nilah against Bard matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Nilah normally has a much larger longest killing spree than their counter does. Commonly, they receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nilah and Bard
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Who is Better, Nilah or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Nilah makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Nilah does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging champion to learn. You should be careful when picking Nilah into Bardas their relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nilah also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nilah is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nilah to counter Bard during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah most often racks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nilah versus Bard build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Nilah incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better when facing Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 48.3% battling Bard with these items in their kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Bard as Nilah, Nilah players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nilah vs Bard matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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