Syndra vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Syndra
based on 2,522 Syndra vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Syndra vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Syndra vs Bard Counter Build
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Core Syndra Items
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Guide to Countering Bard as Syndra
Tips for Playing as Syndra against Bard
To maximize your ultimate's damage use it when there are many spheres on the battlefield.
After you hit an enemy champion with Force of Will follow up with Dark Sphere, they'll be slowed and have a hard time avoiding it.
Get one of your spells to rank 5 as quickly as possible, they gain powerful bonus effects at max rank.
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.
Syndra vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Syndra in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several strategic Syndra against Bard matchup stats that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Syndra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Syndra 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.
Syndra typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Syndra and Bard
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Who is Better, Syndra or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Syndra usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.7% win rate. As a result, Syndra makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Syndra does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Syndra also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Syndra into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Syndra has a good 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Syndra vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Syndra is a trash counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Syndra against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Syndra
Additional Information for Syndra Players
How We Calculated Our Syndra vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Syndra in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Syndra on average accumulates much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Syndra versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Syndra included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Syndra had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Bard as Syndra, Syndra players should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Syndra vs Bard counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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