Evelynn vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Evelynn
based on 2,890 Evelynn vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Evelynn vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Evelynn vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Evelynn
Tips for Playing as Evelynn against Bard
If at low health, you can take advantage of Demon Shade's healing and Camouflage to return to the fight and surprise opponents.
While stealthed, pay attention to when you are (near) being detected by enemy champions. This is identified by the glowing yellow and red eyes over nearby enemy champions.
Allure's arm time might seem long, but the Charm and magic resist shred put Evelynn at an exteme advantage so are worth the wait.
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.
Evelynn vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Evelynn in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Evelynn vs. Bard counter statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Evelynn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Evelynn may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Evelynn usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Evelynn and Bard
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Who is Better, Evelynn or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Evelynn usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.5% win rate. As a result, Evelynn makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Evelynn does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Evelynn also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Evelynn into Bardas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Evelynn also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Evelynn vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Evelynn is a garbage counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Evelynn against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Evelynn 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Evelynn typically accumulates less CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Evelynn versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Evelynn included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better against Bard than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Evelynn boasted an average win rate of 47.5% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Bard as Evelynn, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Evelynn vs Bard counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.5% win rate overall.
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