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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stats provided here show several important Bard against Fiora matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between these two champs. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Fiora’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Fiora. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Fiora. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Fiora, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter for Fiora.
While Bard does have a higher win rate compared to Fiora, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Fioraas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Fiora. 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 Fiora matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Fiora. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Fiora.
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Fiora during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often racks up a lot less CS relative to Fiora. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Bard versus Fiora build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Fiora than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 50.6% when countering Fiora with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Fiora as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Bard vs Fiora counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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