Bard vs Morgana
How to Beat Morgana as Bard
based on 4,774 Bard vs Morgana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Morgana Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Morgana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Morgana as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Morgana
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 Morgana
Tormented Shadow deals tons of damage to units missing large amounts of Health. When low on Health, be wary of Morgana's attempts to trap you within its reach.
Black Shield makes Morgana immune to disabling effects, but can be broken with magic damage.
Morgana often needs to land Dark Binding to setup her other attacks. Use your minions as shields against Dark Binding.
Bard vs Morgana Counter Stats
How to Counter Morgana with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Bard vs. Morgana matchup statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Morgana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Morgana..
Bard typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Morgana. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Bard or Morgana?
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 Morgana, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Morgana.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Morgana, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Morganaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Morgana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Morgana matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter to Morgana. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Morgana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Morgana 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 listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually picks up less CS relative to Morgana. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Bard versus Morgana build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Morgana than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.3% when countering Morgana with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Morgana as Bard, you 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 combinations that we analyzed for Bard vs Morgana counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
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