Galio vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Galio
based on 2,821 Galio vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Galio vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Galio vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Galio
Tips for Playing as Galio against Bard
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
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.
Galio vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Galio in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several significant Galio against Bard counter stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Galio’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Galio may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Galio typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Bard. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Galio and Bard
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Who is Better, Galio or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Galio usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 48.2% win rate. Therefore, Galio makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Galio does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Galio also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Galio into Bard.
Furthermore, Galio has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 one best champion in League of Legends, in Galio vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Galio is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Galio against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Galio to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Galio most often picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Galio versus Bard build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Galio included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Galio boasted an average winrate of 48.2% battling Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Bard as Galio, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Resolve and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Galio vs Bard fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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