Bard vs Lissandra
How to Beat Lissandra as Bard
based on 1,421 Bard vs Lissandra matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Lissandra Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Lissandra Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lissandra as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Lissandra
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 Lissandra
Lissandra's Ring of Frost has a long cooldown at early ranks; engage her while it's on cooldown.
Lissandra's Ice Shard only slows the first unit it hits. Approach Lissandra from behind your team's minions to avoid being slowed.
The best way to stop Lissandra from moving using her Glacial Path is to immobilize her before she reactivates it.
Bard vs Lissandra Counter Stats
How to Counter Lissandra with Bard in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several vital Bard vs. Lissandra counter statistics that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lissandra’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Lissandra. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Lissandra. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Lissandra
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Who is Better, Bard or Lissandra?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Lissandra, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter to Lissandra.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Lissandra, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Lissandraas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lissandra. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Lissandra 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 allies during team fights.
Bard is a great counter for Lissandra. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Bard against Lissandra.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Lissandra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Lissandra. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Bard versus Lissandra build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Lissandra than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 54.1% battling Lissandra with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Lissandra 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. Of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Lissandra fights, this mix of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.1% winrate overall.
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