Yasuo vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Yasuo
based on 7,189 Yasuo vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Yasuo vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Yasuo vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Yasuo
Tips for Playing as Yasuo against Bard
Last Breath can be cast on any target that is knocked Airborne, even by one of your allies.
Dash through a minion to have Sweeping Blade available to chase your opponent should they flee; Dash directly to your opponent to preserve a minion as your escape route.
At level 18, Yasuo's Steel Tempest reaches its Attack Speed cap with 55% Attack Speed from items.
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.
Yasuo vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Yasuo in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some critical Yasuo vs. Bard matchup stats that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Yasuo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Yasuo may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Yasuo normally has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Yasuo and Bard
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Who is Better, Yasuo or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Yasuo usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Yasuo makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Yasuo does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Yasuo also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Yasuo into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Yasuo also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Yasuo vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Yasuo is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Yasuo against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Yasuo to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yasuo on average picks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Yasuo versus Bard build consist of Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Yasuo incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when facing Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Yasuo boasted an average win rate of 48.2% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Bard as Yasuo, Yasuo players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Yasuo vs Bard counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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