Fiddlesticks vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Fiddlesticks
based on 1,772 Fiddlesticks vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Fiddlesticks vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Fiddlesticks vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Fiddlesticks
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.
Fiddlesticks vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Fiddlesticks in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some strategic Fiddlesticks against Bard counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Fiddlesticks normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Fiddlesticks and Bard
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Who is Better, Fiddlesticks or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Fiddlesticks makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Fiddlesticks does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Fiddlesticks into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a trash counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Fiddlesticks against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Fiddlesticks in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks on average picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Fiddlesticks versus Bard build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Bard as Fiddlesticks, you should equip the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Fiddlesticks vs Bard counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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