Caitlyn vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Caitlyn
based on 10,164 Caitlyn vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Caitlyn vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn against Bard
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Caitlyn in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Caitlyn against Bard matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences between these two champions. Caitlyn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Caitlyn may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Caitlyn typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Caitlyn and Bard
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Who is Better, Caitlyn or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Caitlyn usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Caitlyn makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Caitlyn does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Caitlyn also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Caitlyn into Bard.
Moreover, Caitlyn has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Caitlyn vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Caitlyn is a bad counter for Bard. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Caitlyn against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Caitlyn to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Caitlyn often picks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, 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 values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Caitlyn versus Bard build consist of Guardian Angel, Rapid Firecannon, and Stormrazor. When Caitlyn combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn boasted an average winrate of 47.2% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Bard as Caitlyn, Caitlyn players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Caitlyn vs Bard clashes, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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