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.
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some strategic Bard against Mordekaiser counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Mordekaiser’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Mordekaiser. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Mordekaiser. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 49.1% win rate. Thus, Bard makes an ok counter for Mordekaiser.
While Bard does have a lower win rate than Mordekaiser, when facing one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Mordekaiseras his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser 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 somewhat poor counter to Mordekaiser. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Mordekaiser.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average gets a lot less CS relative to Mordekaiser. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Bard versus Mordekaiser build consist of Kaenic Rookern, Trailblazer, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better against Mordekaiser than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average win rate of 49.1% when countering Mordekaiser with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Mordekaiser as Bard, Bard players 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 sets players used for Bard vs Mordekaiser battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Mordekaiser as Bard are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.