Rell vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Rell
based on 1,446 Rell vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Rell vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Rell vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Rell
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.
Rell vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Rell in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several critical Rell vs. Bard counter statistics that can help you interpret the distinctions between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard..
Rell normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Rell and Bard
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Who is Better, Rell or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Rell usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Rell makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Rell does have a much lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Rell also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Rell into Bard.
Additionally, Rell also has a great deal of CC and other utility, 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 is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Rell 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 team members during team fights.
Rell is a bad counter for Bard. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Rell against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Rell in order to counter Bard during both the lane 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 shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Rell versus Bard build include Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rell used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when fighting Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rell had an average winrate of 45.6% when countering Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Bard as Rell, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Rell vs Bard counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.6% win rate overall.
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