Bard vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Bard
based on 5,313 Bard vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Bard vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some significant Bard against Hwei matchup stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hwei’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Hwei. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Hwei. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Hwei
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Who is Better, Bard or Hwei?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 56.6% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a fantastic counter for Hwei.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate than Hwei, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Hweias his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Hwei matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Bard is a great counter to Hwei. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Hwei during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a lot less CS compared to Hwei. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Hwei build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Knight's Vow, and Bloodsong. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Hwei than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 56.6% when countering Hwei with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Hwei as Bard, you should take 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 Hwei clashes, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Hwei as Bard are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.