Nunu & Willump vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nunu & Willump
based on 2,451 Nunu & Willump vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nunu & Willump vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nunu & Willump vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nunu & Willump
Tips for Playing as Nunu & Willump against Bard
Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
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.
Nunu & Willump vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nunu & Willump in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some important Nunu & Willump against Bard counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Nunu & Willump typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nunu & Willump and Bard
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Who is Better, Nunu & Willump or Bard?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Nunu & Willump makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Nunu & Willump does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nunu & Willump into Bard.
Moreover, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump 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 team members during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a trash counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nunu & Willump in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often picks up a similar amount of CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nunu & Willump versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs. Bard than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump boasted an average winrate of 47.4% when playing against Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Bard as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should equip the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nunu & Willump vs Bard face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Nunu & Willump are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.