Zoe vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Zoe
based on 1,385 Zoe vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Bard Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zoe Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Bard as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Bard
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several strategic Zoe vs. Bard matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Zoe often has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Bard
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zoe or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zoe usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 44.3% win rate. Therefore, Zoe makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Zoe does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Zoe also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Zoe into Bard.
Additionally, Zoe has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Zoe is a garbage counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zoe against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zoe
Additional Information for Zoe Players
How We Calculated Our Zoe vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order 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 here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe most often accumulates much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Zoe versus Bard build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Bard than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 44.3% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Bard as Zoe, Zoe players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Zoe vs Bard counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Zoe are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.