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.
Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.
The stats provided here emphasize several significant Bard versus Singed matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Singed’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Singed. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes less damage than Singed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when taking on Singed, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Bard makes an ok counter to Singed.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Singed, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Bard into Singedas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Singed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Singed matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter for Singed. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Singed.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Singed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard usually gets a lot less CS compared to Singed. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Bard versus Singed build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Singed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 50.7% battling Singed with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Singed as Bard, you should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Bard vs Singed matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Singed as Bard are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.