Sylas vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Sylas
based on 3,619 Sylas vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Bard
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
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.
Sylas vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several influential Sylas vs. Bard counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Sylas normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Bard
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Who is Better, Sylas or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sylas usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Sylas does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Sylas also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Sylas into Bard.
Moreover, Sylas has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Sylas is a garbage counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Sylas against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often picks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need 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 top items to prioritize in your Sylas versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs Bard than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Sylas had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Bard as Sylas, Sylas players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Sylas vs Bard counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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