Urgot vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Urgot
based on 2,007 Urgot vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Urgot vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Urgot vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Urgot
Tips for Playing as Urgot against Bard
Save Fear Beyond Death for opponents you know are already too weak to survive. It's especially good for picking off fleeing foes.
Pay attention to your individual leg's cooldowns, as they make for a signficiant portion of your damage
Land Corrosive Charge or Disdain to lock on to target's with Purge - a great way to trigger multiple legs in rapid succession.
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.
Urgot vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Urgot in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight several vital Urgot against Bard matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the pair. Urgot’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Urgot may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Urgot normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Urgot and Bard
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Who is Better, Urgot or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Urgot usually fairs equally well when taking on Bard, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Urgot makes an ok counter for Bard.
While Urgot does have a higher win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Urgot also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Urgot into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Urgot has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Urgot vs Bard matchups, Urgot is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Urgot is a decent counter for Bard. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Urgot against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Urgot in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Urgot on average picks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Urgot versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Dead Man's Plate. When Urgot bought at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Urgot boasted an average winrate of 50.4% when playing against Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Bard as Urgot, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Urgot vs Bard battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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