Ezreal vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Ezreal
based on 6,336 Ezreal vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ezreal vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Ezreal vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Ezreal
Tips for Playing as Ezreal against Bard
Use Arcane Shift to help line up your other skill shots.
You can line up Trueshot Barrage to hit multiple minion waves or even Monsters.
You can play Ezreal either as a Attack Damage carry or Ability Power carry depending on how you build him.
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.
Ezreal vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Ezreal in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some important Ezreal against Bard matchup statistics that may help us grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ezreal’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ezreal may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Ezreal usually has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ezreal and Bard
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Who is Better, Ezreal or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ezreal usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Ezreal makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Ezreal does have a much lower winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Ezreal also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Ezreal into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ezreal 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ezreal vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ezreal is a trash counter for Bard. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ezreal against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ezreal 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ezreal most often gets much more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need 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, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Ezreal versus Bard build include Muramana, Trinity Force, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Ezreal combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Bard than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ezreal had an average win rate of 45.0% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Bard as Ezreal, Ezreal players should use the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Ezreal vs Bard clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
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