Warwick vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Warwick
based on 4,054 Warwick vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Warwick vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Warwick vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Warwick
Tips for Playing as Warwick against Bard
Infinite Duress (R)'s distance scales with any Move Speed you gain, even from ally buffs and summoner spells.
Follow your Blood Hunt trails to low health enemy champions.
Jaws of the Beast (Q) will follow enemies who run, dash or teleport if you keep the button held down.
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.
Warwick vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Warwick in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some critical Warwick vs. Bard counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Warwick’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Warwick may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the differences in killsdeaths.
Warwick typically has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Warwick and Bard
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Who is Better, Warwick or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Warwick usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.5% win rate. Therefore, Warwick makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Warwick does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Warwick also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Warwick into Bard.
Moreover, Warwick has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Warwick 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 allies during team fights.
Warwick is a garbage counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Warwick against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Warwick in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Warwick usually gets more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't acquire 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 abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Warwick versus Bard build include Blade of The Ruined King, Titanic Hydra, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Warwick combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Warwick had an average winrate of 47.5% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Bard as Warwick, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Warwick vs Bard counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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