Taliyah vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Taliyah
based on 1,312 Taliyah vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taliyah vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Taliyah vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Taliyah
Tips for Playing as Taliyah against Bard
Remember, you don't always have to ride Weaver's Wall.
Try to throw enemies into Unraveled Earth using Seismic Shove.
Once you have Rylai's Crystal Scepter, casting Threaded Volley at enemies chasing you is a great way of making them regret everything.
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.
Taliyah vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Taliyah in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several vital Taliyah against Bard counter stats that can help you figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Taliyah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taliyah may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Taliyah often has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taliyah and Bard
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Who is Better, Taliyah or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taliyah usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 47.4% win rate. As a result, Taliyah makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Taliyah does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Taliyah also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Taliyah into Bard.
Additionally, Taliyah has a good 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 is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taliyah 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.
Taliyah is a trash counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taliyah against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taliyah in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taliyah most often racks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Taliyah versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Taliyah included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when facing Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Taliyah boasted an average winrate of 47.4% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of defeating Bard as Taliyah, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Taliyah vs Bard clashes, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
If you would like to view Taliyah versus Bard tips and matchup stats and build suggestions for a an individual skill level, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. At first, the stats and guides shown are computed using all games completed with these champions.