Quinn vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Quinn
based on 1,296 Quinn vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Quinn vs Bard Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Bard as Quinn
Tips for Playing as Quinn against Bard
Attacking a
Vulnerable
target marked by Valor will put Harrier on cooldown. Quickly consuming Harrier marks will allow you to generate them faster.
Use Behind Enemy Lines for traveling very long distances quickly, for farming minions around the map, or for chasing wounded targets.
Vault is powerful but must be used with caution, as enemies can attack Quinn when she strikes them. Vault can sometimes be used to cross terrain if your back is to a wall.
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.
Quinn vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Quinn in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Quinn against Bard counter statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Quinn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Quinn may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Quinn normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Quinn and Bard
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Who is Better, Quinn or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Quinn usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Quinn makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Quinn does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Quinn also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Quinn into Bard.
Furthermore, Quinn also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Quinn 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 teammates during team fights.
Quinn is a garbage counter to Bard. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Quinn against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Quinn in order to counter Bard during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Quinn often accumulates much more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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 require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Quinn versus Bard build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, The Collector, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Quinn combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Quinn boasted an average winrate of 47.9% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Bard as Quinn, Quinn players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Quinn vs Bard matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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