Bard vs Nilah
How to Beat Nilah as Bard
based on 1,637 Bard vs Nilah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Nilah Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Nilah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nilah as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Nilah
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.
Bard vs Nilah Counter Stats
How to Counter Nilah with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several critical Bard versus Nilah counter statistics that may help us explain the differences between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nilah’s ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nilah. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nilah. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Nilah
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Who is Better, Bard or Nilah?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Nilah, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter to Nilah.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Nilah, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Bard into Nilahas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nilah. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Nilah matchups, Bard is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Bard is a decent counter to Nilah. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Nilah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets a lot less CS relative to Nilah. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Bard versus Nilah build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Nilah than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 51.7% when countering Nilah with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Nilah as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Bard vs Nilah counters, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.7% winrate overall.
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