Bard vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Bard
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Bard vs Garen Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Garen as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Bard vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Bard versus Garen counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Garen?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Garen, with a 53.7% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a great counter for Garen.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Garen, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Garen 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 to Garen. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Bard against Garen.
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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 Garen during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Bard versus Garen build consist of Trailblazer, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Garen than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 53.7% when playing against Garen with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Garen as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Garen clashes, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.7% winrate overall.
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