Aurelion Sol vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Aurelion Sol
based on 1,647 Aurelion Sol vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aurelion Sol vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Aurelion Sol vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Aurelion Sol
Tips for Playing as Aurelion Sol against Bard
You can use Comet of Legend's flight to grow Starsurge to massive proportions.
Comet of Legend allows you to move quickly around the map; use it to put pressure on other lanes.
Save Voice of Light to use as a defense against melee opponents if you need to - otherwise, use its slow to start a fight at long range.
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.
Aurelion Sol vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Aurelion Sol in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Aurelion Sol versus Bard matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champs. Aurelion Sol’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Aurelion Sol may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Aurelion Sol normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aurelion Sol and Bard
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Who is Better, Aurelion Sol or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Aurelion Sol usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.8% win rate. As a result, Aurelion Sol makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Aurelion Sol does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Aurelion Sol also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Aurelion Sol into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Aurelion Sol also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aurelion Sol vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Aurelion Sol is a trash counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Aurelion Sol against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Aurelion Sol in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aurelion Sol usually gets much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Aurelion Sol versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment. When Aurelion Sol bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better versus Bard than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Aurelion Sol boasted an average win rate of 47.8% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Bard as Aurelion Sol, Aurelion Sol players should equip the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Aurelion Sol vs Bard counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
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