Vayne vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Vayne
based on 5,450 Vayne vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vayne vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Vayne vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Vayne
Tips for Playing as Vayne against Bard
Don't go in first to a large teamfight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Tumble has many uses, but it cannot pass over walls.
Condemn can be used to both pin targets to walls to ensure a kill, or to escape a pursuer.
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.
Vayne vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Vayne in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Vayne vs. Bard counter statistics that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Vayne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Vayne 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.
Vayne typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vayne and Bard
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Who is Better, Vayne or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Vayne usually fairs equally well when taking on Bard, with a 49.6% win rate. Thus, Vayne makes an ok counter for Bard.
While Vayne does have a lower winrate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Vayne also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Vayne into Bardas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Vayne also has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Vayne 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 allied champions during team fights.
Vayne is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vayne against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Vayne 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vayne often accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Vayne versus Bard build include Bloodthirster, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Vayne combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when facing Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Vayne had an average win rate of 49.6% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Bard as Vayne, Vayne players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Vayne vs Bard clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.6% win rate overall.
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