Poppy vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Poppy
based on 1,863 Poppy vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Bard
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
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.
Poppy vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Poppy in LoL
The stats shown here feature some valuable Poppy against Bard counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Poppy typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Poppy and Bard
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Who is Better, Poppy or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Poppy usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Poppy makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Poppy does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Poppy also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Poppy into Bard.
Furthermore, Poppy also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Poppy 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 allied champions during late stage team fights.
Poppy is a garbage counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Poppy against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Poppy in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy typically gets more CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Poppy versus Bard build include Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Poppy used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Bard than with most other typical builds. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 46.4% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Bard as Poppy, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Poppy vs Bard counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Poppy are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To filter the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.