Singed vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Singed
based on 2,576 Singed vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Singed vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Singed vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Singed
Tips for Playing as Singed against Bard
Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
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.
Singed vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Singed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several valuable Singed against Bard counter stats that can help us grasp the differences between the pair. Singed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Singed may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Singed normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Singed and Bard
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Who is Better, Singed or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Singed usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bard, with a 49.3% win rate. As a result, Singed makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Singed does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Singed also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Singed into Bard.
Furthermore, Singed also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Singed vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Singed is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Singed against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Singed 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Singed on average picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't take much CS 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Singed versus Bard build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Force of Nature, and Liandry's Torment. When Singed incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Singed boasted an average winrate of 49.3% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Bard as Singed, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Nimbus Cloak runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Singed vs Bard clashes, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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