Diana vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Diana
based on 4,291 Diana vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Diana vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Diana vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Diana
Tips for Playing as Diana against Bard
Use Moonfall and Lunar Rush to stay on targets and activate Moonsilver Blade for extra damage.
Consider when to cast Lunar Rush without Moonlight and when to wait for another Crescent Strike.
Landing Crescent Strike is critically important, but don't be afraid to miss. The cooldown is short and the mana cost is low.
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.
Diana vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Diana in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Diana against Bard matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Diana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Diana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Diana typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Diana and Bard
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Who is Better, Diana or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Diana usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.3% win rate. Therefore, Diana makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Diana does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Diana also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Diana into Bard.
Moreover, Diana also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Diana 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.
Diana is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Diana against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Diana to counter Bard during both the early game 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 listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Diana most often picks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Diana versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Diana bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better countering Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Diana had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Bard as Diana, Diana players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Diana vs Bard counter picks, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.3% win rate overall.
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