Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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 provided here highlight several strategic Fiora vs. Bard counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Fiora often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Fiora usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bard, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Fiora makes an ok counter for Bard.
While Fiora does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Fiora into Bard.
Moreover, Fiora also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Fiora vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Fiora is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Fiora against Bard.
If you would like to truly master Fiora in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora on average gets much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Fiora versus Bard build consist of Guardian Angel, Ravenous Hydra, and Trinity Force. When Fiora combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Bard than with many other common item sets. In fact, Fiora had an average winrate of 49.4% battling Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Bard as Fiora, Fiora players should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Fiora vs Bard counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.4% win rate overall.
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