Bard vs Ezreal
How to Beat Ezreal as Bard
based on 6,336 Bard vs Ezreal matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Ezreal Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Ezreal Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ezreal as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Ezreal
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Ezreal
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
Bard vs Ezreal Counter Stats
How to Counter Ezreal with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Bard against Ezreal counter statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ezreal’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ezreal. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Ezreal. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Ezreal
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Who is Better, Bard or Ezreal?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Ezreal, with a 55.0% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter to Ezreal.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate than Ezreal, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champ to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Ezrealas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ezreal. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Ezreal matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Ezreal. Focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Bard against Ezreal.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Ezreal during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often accumulates a lot less CS as Ezreal. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Bard versus Ezreal build include Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better countering Ezreal than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 55.0% when playing against Ezreal with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Ezreal as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Bard vs Ezreal fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 55.0% win rate overall.
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