Cleavers are a powerful tool for killing neutral monsters. Instead of returning to base, farm neutral monsters until your ultimate can heal you.
A well-timed Sadism can bait enemy champions into attacking you even when they lack the damage to finish you.
Spirit Visage will increase the healing done by your ultimate and lower cooldowns on all of your abilities.
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.
The stats shown on this page feature several vital Dr. Mundo vs. Bard counter stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Dr. Mundo may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard..
Dr. Mundo usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Dr. Mundo usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 47.9% win rate. Thus, Dr. Mundo makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Dr. Mundo does have a lower win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Dr. Mundo also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Dr. Mundo into Bard.
Furthermore, Dr. Mundo has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Dr. Mundo 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 late stage team fights.
Dr. Mundo is a garbage counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Dr. Mundo against Bard.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Dr. Mundo to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Dr. Mundo often gets much more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Dr. Mundo versus Bard build include Unending Despair, Thornmail, and Heartsteel. When Dr. Mundo combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Dr. Mundo had an average winrate of 47.9% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Bard as Dr. Mundo, Dr. Mundo players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Approach Velocity runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Dr. Mundo vs Bard counterpicks, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
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