Bard vs Qiyana
How to Beat Qiyana as Bard
based on 1,519 Bard vs Qiyana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Qiyana Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Qiyana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Qiyana as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Qiyana
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 Qiyana Counter Stats
How to Counter Qiyana with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some influential Bard vs. Qiyana matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Qiyana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Qiyana. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Qiyana. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Qiyana
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Who is Better, Bard or Qiyana?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Qiyana, with a 56.0% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a fantastic counter to Qiyana.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate than Qiyana, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Qiyanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Qiyana. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Qiyana 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 teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Qiyana. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Qiyana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Qiyana 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 suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually picks up a lot less CS as Qiyana. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Bard versus Qiyana build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Qiyana than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 56.0% battling Qiyana with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Qiyana as Bard, you should take 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 chose for Bard vs Qiyana clashes, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 56.0% winrate overall.
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