Bard vs Taliyah
How to Beat Taliyah as Bard
based on 1,312 Bard vs Taliyah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Taliyah Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Taliyah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Taliyah as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Taliyah
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 Taliyah
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
Bard vs Taliyah Counter Stats
How to Counter Taliyah with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some important Bard versus Taliyah counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Taliyah. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Taliyah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Taliyah
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Who is Better, Bard or Taliyah?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Taliyah, with a 52.6% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a good counter to Taliyah.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Taliyahas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. 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 a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Taliyah matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a good counter for Taliyah. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Taliyah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average gets a lot less CS relative to Taliyah. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Bard versus Taliyah build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Taliyah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.6% when playing against Taliyah with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Taliyah as Bard, Bard players 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 we have analyed for Bard vs Taliyah matchups, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.6% winrate overall.
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