Brand vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Brand
based on 6,137 Brand vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Brand vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Bard
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Brand vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Brand in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Brand vs. Bard matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Brand typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Brand and Bard
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Who is Better, Brand or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Brand usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bard, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Brand makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Brand does have a higher win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Brand into Bard.
Furthermore, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Brand vs Bard matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Brand is a decent counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Brand against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Brand in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into 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.
Brand on average picks up more CS compared to Bard. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Brand versus Bard build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Liandry's Torment. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better versus Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Brand boasted an average winrate of 50.9% battling Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Bard as Brand, you should take the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Brand vs Bard fights, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 50.9% winrate overall.
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