Bard vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Bard
based on 3,160 Bard vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Bard vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Bard against Tristana counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tristana’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Tristana. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Tristana. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Tristana
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Who is Better, Bard or Tristana?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Tristana, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a good counter for Tristana.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Tristana, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Tristanaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Tristana 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 team members during teamfights.
Bard is a good counter to Tristana. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Tristana during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often gets a lot less CS compared to Tristana. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often 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 skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Bard versus Tristana build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Tristana than with many other common builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 52.9% when playing against Tristana with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Tristana as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Bard vs Tristana face-offs, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.9% win rate overall.
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