Bard vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Bard
based on 4,035 Bard vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Zed Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Zed as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Bard vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here show some vital Bard versus Zed matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zed’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Zed. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Zed. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Zed
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Who is Better, Bard or Zed?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Zed, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Zed.
While Bard does have a higher winrate compared to Zed, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Zedas 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 Zed. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Zed 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Bard is an above average counter for Zed. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Zed.
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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 Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often racks up a lot less CS as Zed. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Bard versus Zed build consist of Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Solstice Sleigh. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Zed than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard boasted an average win rate of 52.4% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Zed as Bard, Bard players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Relentless Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Bard vs Zed counters, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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