Orianna vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Orianna
based on 1,533 Orianna vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Orianna vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Orianna vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Orianna
Tips for Playing as Orianna against Bard
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
Orianna vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Orianna in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several influential Orianna against Bard counter statistics that can help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Orianna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Orianna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard..
Orianna typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Orianna and Bard
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Who is Better, Orianna or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Orianna usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 45.0% win rate. As a result, Orianna makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Orianna does have a much lower win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Orianna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Orianna into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Orianna has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Orianna vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Orianna is a bad counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Orianna against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Orianna to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Orianna usually accumulates much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Orianna versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Bard than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Orianna had an average win rate of 45.0% battling Bard with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Bard as Orianna, Orianna players should take the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Orianna vs Bard face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.0% win rate overall.
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