Ahri vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Ahri
based on 2,918 Ahri vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Bard
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Ahri in LoL
The stats provided here show some significant Ahri vs. Bard matchup statistics that can help you grasp the differences between this pair of champions. Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Ahri normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Bard
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Who is Better, Ahri or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 45.3% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Ahri does have a much lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ahri into Bard.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ahri is a terribly counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ahri to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri on average racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Ahri had an average winrate of 45.3% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Ahri vs Bard LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.3% winrate overall.
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